Manhandled (1949)
1h 37m
Running Time
July 21, 1949Release Date
Manhandled (1949)
1h 37m
Running Time
July 21, 1949Release Date
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Plot.
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
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Cast & Crew.
Dan Duryea
Karl Benson
Dorothy Lamour
Merl Kramer
Sterling Hayden
Joe Cooper
Phillip Reed
Guy Bayard
Irene Hervey
Ruth / Mrs. Alton Bennet
Harold Vermilyea
Dr. Redman
Lewis R. Foster
Director
Whitman Chambers
Writer
Alan Napier
Alton Bennet
Art Smith
Detective Lt. Bill Dawson
L.S. Goldsmith
Writer
Irving Bacon
Sgt. Fayle
William H. Pine
Producer
George Humbert
Italian Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
William C. Thomas
Producer
Darrell Calker
Composer
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Wiki.
Manhandled is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden and Dan Duryea. It is based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith.