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The Locket is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Brahm released in USA on 20 december 1946 with Laraine Day
The Locket (1946)
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Add to a movie listThe Locket is a 1946 film noir directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures. The film is based on a screenplay by Sheridan Gibney, adapted from "What Nancy Wanted" by Norma Barzman, wife of later-blacklisted writer Ben Barzman. It is noted for its complex use of layered flashbacks (flashbacks within flashbacks) to give psychological depth to the narrative.
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A story told in a number of flashbacks from different points of view, this psychological drama tells the story of a bride-to-be (Day) who, as a child, was falsely accused of theft. She grows up to become a kleptomaniac, inveterate liar, and eventually a murderess.Actors
Laraine Day
(Nancy)
Brian Aherne
(Dr. Harry Blair)
Robert Mitchum
(Norman Clyde)
Gene Raymond
(John Willis)
Sharyn Moffett
(Nancy - Age 10)
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