Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Neighbor's Wife
- (as Margie Stapp)
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaThis film offers a rare glimpse at a contemporary 1949 television set, a bulky table model with a ten-inch rectangular screen, which commonly was required to be "set up" by qualified technicians who also needed to install an antenna on the roof before proper reception could be achieved. Commercial television broadcasts had begun in Los Angeles two years earlier in 1947 on KTLA (Channel 5).
- GoofsJane is said to have broken a heel In the fall that caused her to miss her escape by bus, but as she picks up a broken heel off the ground and carries it with her, the heels on the shoes on both her feet remain intact and attached.
- Quotes
Jane Bandle: You make me guilty of the most disgusting thing a woman can do! No! No, I'd rather kill myself right here and now than... than believe a love I knew was good and fine is... is THIS!
Dennis Williams: Jane, don't talk like that.
Jane Bandle: I would!
[picks up knife]
Dennis Williams: Jane, stop that! Give it to me
[struggle ensues, Dennis is stabbed]
He arranges for Day and his brother (Bruce Bennett) to be home when Day's lover (Franchot Tone) and his wife (Agnes Moorehead) drop by so he can expose her and get his revenge. Just another sunny day in the burbs.
What Clark doesn't know is that earlier that afternoon Day and Tone had a big fight and break-up and when Day tried to kill herself with a shish-kabob skewer he accidentally fell on it while wrestling it away from her and stabbed himself to death. He's in the laundry room on the floor.
When Clark arrives, he taunts Day, who is about to skip out in a taxi. He goes on and on about how she got him drunk on beers when he was 18 and he made a fool of himself and he's never gotten over it. Day has other things on her mind. Moorehead shows up with no idea why she's there. Bennett comes home from work. Tone is a no-show.
Moorehead has a chat with Day and tells her she knows all about it ... and all his previous dalliances. Bennett pitches a fit, so Day runs into the bathroom and tries to slice her wrists with a razor blade. They call an ambulance but by then they discover that Tone isn't in the laundry room. Keep that ambulance a-comin'.
Everyone in the cast is quite good even if the film is a tad over-the-top. Certainly an interesting post-war take on placid suburbia. Gorgeous cars! Tone drives a 1948 Studebaker convertible and Moorehead drives a 1948 Packard sedan.
- drednm
- Apr 22, 2022
Details
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1