Tension
A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover. A mousy drugstore manager contemplates murder after his con…
Tension
A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover. A mousy drugstore manager contemplates murder after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend. Things take an unexpected turn after someone else commits the murder, and he becomes the prime suspect. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com> Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that after he commits the murder, he will not be suspected. He is painstakingly precise in every detail of his plan, even to becoming friendly with Deager's neighbor, Mary Chanler. However, he falls in love with Mary and is appalled that he could have even comprehended his planned action; then, Deager is actually murdered. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> The timid pharmacist Warren Quimby works hard on the night shift of a drugstore to give a good life to his promiscuous wife Claire Quimby. When Claire leaves him to live with her lover, the liquor salesman Barney Deager, Warren schemes to kill Barney. He creates a new identity of a man called Paul Sothern and moves during the weekends to an apartment, saying that he is a traveling salesman to explain the absence along the week. He creates evidence that Paul Sothern wants to get rid off Barney, but soon he falls in love with his next door neighbor Mary Chanler. One night, he goes to the Barney's house by Malibu beach, but he gives up killing him; instead he tells Barney that he will divorce Claire. He goes home to move to Mary's apartment, but, out of the blue, Claire returns and tells him that Barney was murdered. When Lieutenants Collier Bonnabel and Edgar Gonsales come to his apartment, Warren provides an alibi for Claire. However, the smart Lieutenant Bonnabel proceeds with his investigation and discovers that Warren Quimby and Paul Sothern are the same man, and Warren is arrested. Will Bonnabel find the truth? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Milquetoast Warren Quimby works as the night manager at a Culver City pharmacy, choosing this higher paying shift and living in a cheap apartment above the pharmacy all in service to his wife, Claire Quimby, in an effort to save money to purchase a small house for them in the suburbs. Deep in his heart, he knows that Claire, who openly flirts even in front of him, is looking for someone to take his place, even if temporarily, until she finds that permanent way out of his life, all his measures to make her happy so that she won't leave him. As Warren discovers that she does not share his suburban dream, she, in turn finds that permanent replacement for him in the form of flashy and masculine liquor salesman, Barney Deager, who owns a beachfront house in Malibu. After a futile attempt to get Claire back by confronting Deager, Warren devises what he believes is a better scheme to deal with Deager: assume a new identity and persona - confident Paul Sothern - make it evident to people in Daeger's life that Paul Sothern is after him, then kill him, with the killer being assumed to be never seen Paul Sothern, who cannot be tied back to Warren. A few things may throw a wrench into Warren's plan to murder Deager without it being tied back to him. First, Claire has her own views of what she wants for her life, whether it be with Warren, Deager, or someone else. Second, Warren, as Paul Sothern, meets and falls for Mary Chanler, who ends up having a stake in what "Paul Sothern" does. And third, Police Lieutenant Collier Bonnabel, a regular at the pharmacy in believing it serves the best coffee in town, enters the fray and has his own ulterior motives. —Huggo
Tension
Crime,Drama,Film-Noir
Film Details
A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover. A mousy drugstore manager contemplates murder after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend.
Things take an unexpected turn after someone else commits the murder, and he becomes the prime suspect. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com> Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that after he commits the murder, he will not be suspected.
He is painstakingly precise in every detail of his plan, even to becoming friendly with Deager's neighbor, Mary Chanler. However, he falls in love with Mary and is appalled that he could have even comprehended his planned action; then, Deager is actually murdered. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> The timid pharmacist Warren Quimby works hard on the night shift of a drugstore to give a good life to his promiscuous wife Claire Quimby.
When Claire leaves him to live with her lover, the liquor salesman Barney Deager, Warren schemes to kill Barney. He creates a new identity of a man called Paul Sothern and moves during the weekends to an apartment, saying that he is a traveling salesman to explain the absence along the week. He creates evidence that Paul Sothern wants to get rid off Barney, but soon he falls in love with his next door neighbor Mary Chanler.
One night, he goes to the Barney's house by Malibu beach, but he gives up killing him; instead he tells Barney that he will divorce Claire. He goes home to move to Mary's apartment, but, out of the blue, Claire returns and tells him that Barney was murdered. When Lieutenants Collier Bonnabel and Edgar Gonsales come to his apartment, Warren provides an alibi for Claire.
However, the smart Lieutenant Bonnabel proceeds with his investigation and discovers that Warren Quimby and Paul Sothern are the same man, and Warren is arrested. Will Bonnabel find the truth? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Milquetoast Warren Quimby works as the night manager at a Culver City pharmacy, choosing this higher paying shift and living in a cheap apartment above the pharmacy all in service to his wife, Claire Quimby, in an effort to save money to purchase a small house for them in the suburbs. Deep in his heart, he knows that Claire, who openly flirts even in front of him, is looking for someone to take his place, even if temporarily, until she finds that permanent way out of his life, all his measures to make her happy so that she won't leave him.
As Warren discovers that she does not share his suburban dream, she, in turn finds that permanent replacement for him in the form of flashy and masculine liquor salesman, Barney Deager, who owns a beachfront house in Malibu. After a futile attempt to get Claire back by confronting Deager, Warren devises what he believes is a better scheme to deal with Deager: assume a new identity and persona - confident Paul Sothern - make it evident to people in Daeger's life that Paul Sothern is after him, then kill him, with the killer being assumed to be never seen Paul Sothern, who cannot be tied back to Warren. A few things may throw a wrench into Warren's plan to murder Deager without it being tied back to him.
First, Claire has her own views of what she wants for her life, whether it be with Warren, Deager, or someone else. Second, Warren, as Paul Sothern, meets and falls for Mary Chanler, who ends up having a stake in what "Paul Sothern" does. And third, Police Lieutenant Collier Bonnabel, a regular at the pharmacy in believing it serves the best coffee in town, enters the fray and has his own ulterior motives.
—Huggo.