Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

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Conflict (1945)

SUSPENSE...SUSPICION...MAN-WOMAN DESIRES!

★ 6.7/10 June 15, 1945 86 min

Thriller

Director: Curtis Bernhardt  ·  Writers: Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

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Director

Curtis Bernhardt Curtis Bernhardt

Cast

Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart Richard Mason Alexis Smith Alexis Smith Evelyn Turner Sydney Greenstreet Sydney Greenstreet Mark Hamilton Rose Hobart Rose Hobart Kathryn Mason Charles Drake Charles Drake Norman Holsworth Grant Mitchell Grant Mitchell Dr. Grant Patrick O'Moore Patrick O'Moore Egan Ann Shoemaker Ann Shoemaker Nora Grant Edwin Stanley Edwin Stanley Phillips (uncredited) Frank Wilcox Frank Wilcox Freston (uncredited) Bess Flowers Bess Flowers Guest at Rainbow Lodge (uncredited) Oliver Blake Oliver Blake Pawnbroker #1 (uncredited)

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John Chard
John Chard January 25, 2014
★ 7/10

You see, Doctor Hamilton belongs to the Freudian school of psychology, he believes that love rather than money is the root of all evil. Conflict is directed by Curtis Bernhardt and collectively written by Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor, Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake and Grant Mitchell. Music is by Frederick Hollander and cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad. Still under exposed after all these years, Conflict is deserving of reappraisals by the film noir crowd. Plot has Richard Mason (Bogart) stuck in a loveless marriage to Kathryn (Hobart), with his misery further compounded by the fact he’s in love with his sister-in-law, Evelyn (Smith). Finally having enough, Richard murders his wife and intends to woo the younger Evelyn into his life. However, when Richard starts glimpsing his wife o…