Impact (film)
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| Directed by | Arthur Lubin |
| Produced by | Leo C. Popkin |
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| Story by | Jay Dratler |
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| Music by | Michel Michelet |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Edited by | Arthur H. Nadel |
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Cardinal Pictures
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Impact is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. Filmed entirely in California , the film included scenes filmed in Sausalito, and at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf and other locations around the city. Impact was based on a story by film noir writer Jay Dratler. The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn and William Wright.
The San Francisco, California-based millionaire industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) has a younger wife, Irene (Helen Walker), who is trying to kill him with the help of her young lover, Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett). After Walter and Irene make plans to drive to Lake Tahoe, Irene feigns illness and asks Walter to instead give Torrance, who is pretending to be Irene's "cousin" from Illinois, a lift to Denver, Colorado, allowing Torrance a chance to murder Walter en route. The plan falls apart when Williams survives a hit on the head from the would-be killer. Attempting to flee the scene in Williams' Packard Clipper convertible, Torrance dies in a fiery head-on collision with a gasoline tanker truck. The body of Torrance is mistakenly identified as Williams. In the meantime, Irene has made reservations at a hotel in Oakland for her and her boyfriend to meet afterward, under the assumed names of "Mr. & Mrs. Jack Burns."
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