The Ending ~*~SPOILERS~*~
please, i would like to know how this movie ends. i've always seen the beginning and can never finish the movie for many reasons. i just want to know how it ends. thanks a lot!
shareThe murderer breaks into the house, and the woman tries to call for help. Just as she's getting thru to the police, the murderer enters her room. Just as the train goes by, he kills her, and she screams, but the train drowns out most of the noise, just as was planned. The train passes, the woman is dead, and the man picks up the phone. He hears the police saying, "Hello? Hello? May I help you?" The murderer then speaks into the phone and utters the line, "Sorry, wrong number." He hangs up the phone, and the film ends.
You asked for it. *smiles wryly*
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Actually she was talking to her husband on the phone. He begged her to go to the window and scream as the killer was walking up the stairs but she was too scared to move. She didn't scream until the train went by and of course no one heard her as she was killed. Her husband was frantically calling her name on the phone then the killer picked it up and said "sorry, wrong number" and hung it up. This was particularly ironic as it was the husband who planned her murder in the first place.
shareJust saw it the other day, and the ending just left me in shock! You don't end movies like that, and that's why I really like this one.
And I am guessing that the grandparent might have been reffering to the radio drama. I'm only guessing, though.
I love this movie, and I thought that the ending was so right on because she could have saved herself if she had really wanted to, but she had convinced herself so fully that she was incapable that she didn't even snap out of if to save her own life. It almost has a "boy who cried wolf" quality to it; she created her life as an invalid, and then it was that very choice that led to her death.
shareyeah, one of the most unusual endings you'll ever see in a hollywood "product." and, when you consider the film was made in '48 - just after a world war, when people were dying (pardon the pun) for happy endings - it's even more remarkable.
typical of film noir - a young subgenre, at the time - though, where you "authentice" (truthful), rather than necessarily good/pleasing ones. the husband trying to save the wife, after arranging to have her killed, being part of an ultimate irony.
i don't think this film could be remade today, because of it...
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Agreed. Couldn't be made today. not this film, this quality.
Unless Spider man rescued her.
I saw the film yesterday for the first time. I wondered how it got past the 'Hayes code' for censorship? As I understood it, you weren't allowed to have films where the bad guy got away with it.
shareRegarding the comment about "the bad guys getting away with it". Dr Evans committed suicide, the police nabbed hubby Burt who would no doubt give them William Conrad and company.
I was really shocked by the ending. What an excellent movie.
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You're right, the bad guys didn't get away with it. Evans told Leona that Moreno had been arrested and the last thing that Henry is heard saying to Leona as the killer enters the room and she hangs up the phone is "Police will know, I'll burn if they get me, they'll know! They'll find out from Morano!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4AzrUO3D1w 1:25 into clip.
So with the Code being in full effect in 1949, no one (except for possibly the actual killer) was getting away with murder.
Okay, I see now.
shareWow ... I just had to google the Hayes Code. If Hollywood still followed that code, I don't think they could produce ANY movie. They were really strict back in the 1920s.
shareThere's a similar "code" now, controlled by the MPAA psychos and a few studio heads.
It's all PC now, you've got to have "X" number of LBGTQILSMFT people, who must be portrayed in a good light, same with racial minorities and women must be portrayed as strong and flawless, men as ignorant bumblers.
Independent studios will be the lifeblood for people who like interesting and quirky films which don't adhere to formula.