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Plot

Dying in a Korea prisoner-of-war camp, Adrian Carmichael learns his wife Alice has been unfaithful back home. He makes friend Paul Quentin promise not to let the Carmichaels' children be raised by another man, no matter what. Paul escapes from camp and is treated for trauma in a U.S. hospital for veterans. Having no family of his own, he visits Carmichael's and is made welcome. Alice has ended her affair with Howard Gray, but he is blackmailing her. Paul becomes consumed with his friend's last request and has terrible visions of killing Carmichael's kids. After a fight with Gray, he comes to realize that a return to the VA hospital is necessary. Treated like a part of the family now, Paul believes his frightening promise to be a thing of the past.

Cast

* Edmund Purdom as Paul Quentin *

as Alice Carmichael *

as Mary Carmichael *

Jacques Bergerac Jacques Bergerac (26 May 1927 – 15 June 2014) was a French actor and businessman. Life and career Jacques Bergerac was born in 1927 in Biarritz, France, the son of Alice (Romatet) and Charles Bergerac. Bergerac was a law student when he met a ...

as Howard Gray *

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as Meg Carmichael * Carl Benton Reid as James Carmichael * Douglas Kennedy as Parry SanBorne * Donald Murphy as Dr. Adrian Carmichael * Ruby Goodwin as Annie, Alice's housekeeper *

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as Libby Carmichael * Eric Anderson as Johnny Carmichael

References

External links

* 1956 films American crime drama films Films directed by Irving Rapper Films scored by Paul Dunlap 1950s English-language films Allied Artists films 1956 crime drama films 1950s American films American black-and-white films {{1950s-drama-film-stub