I Wake Up Screaming
Three of the Hottest names in Hollywood... in a picture that makes the screen SIZZLE!
Genres
Overview
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
82 min
Release Date
1941-10-31
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
72
Vote Average
6.868
Betty Grable
Jill Lynn
Victor Mature
Frankie Christopher (Botticelli)
Carole Landis
Vicky Lynn
Laird Cregar
Police Insp. Ed Cornell
William Gargan
Jerry 'Mac' MacDonald
Alan Mowbray
Robin Ray
Allyn Joslyn
Larry Evans
Elisha Cook Jr.
Harry Williams
Chick Chandler
Reporter
Cyril Ring
Reporter
Morris Ankrum
Assistant District Attorney
Charles Lane
Keating- Florist
Frank Orth
Cemetery Caretaker
Gregory Gaye
Headwaiter
May Beatty
Lady Handel
Brooks Benedict
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Detective (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Detective (uncredited)
John Breen
Sidewalk passerby (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Russ Clark
Policeman (uncredited)
Stanley Clements
Newsboy (uncredited)
James Conaty
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Pedestrian newspaper buyer (uncredited)
Bob Cornell
Reporter (uncredited)
Dorothy Dearing
Girl at table (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Detective (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Detective (uncredited)
Sarah Edwards
Customer (uncredited)
James Flavin
Detective (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Lady Handel's party guest (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Waiter (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
George Hickman
Newsboy (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Cab driver (uncredited)
Pat McKee
Ozinski - Newsman (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Edward McWade
Old man at library (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Mike Morelli
Fight spectator (uncredited)
Philip Morris
Detective (uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Mr. Handel (uncredited)
William J. O'Brien
Man hosing sidewalk (uncredited)
Albert Pollet
Waiter (uncredited)
Dick Rich
Detective (uncredited)
Tim Ryan
Detective (uncredited)
Harry Seymour
Bartender (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Amzie Strickland
Girl at table (uncredited)
Basil Walker
Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Weigel
Gus- Deleicatesson Proprietor (uncredited)
Cecil Weston
Police Matron (uncredited)
4.0
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
1939-02-01 | en
5.6
A Bullet for Joey
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
1955-04-15 | en
6.6
The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
1956-02-03 | en
7.0
Riot in Cell Block 11
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
1954-02-18 | en
6.7
Green for Danger
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
1946-12-07 | en
5.4
Double Jeopardy
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
1955-06-23 | en
6.5
Tomorrow Is Another Day
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
1951-08-08 | en
6.5
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
1947-02-20 | en
6.6
Highway 301
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
1950-12-01 | en
6.5
Stranger on the Third Floor
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
1940-08-16 | en
6.0
The Mark of the Whistler
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
1944-10-09 | en
6.4
Framed
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
1947-05-25 | en
7.1
Caged
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
1950-05-19 | en
5.3
The Arnelo Affair
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
1947-02-13 | en
6.1
Under the Gun
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.
1951-02-22 | en
5.8
Trapped
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
1949-09-27 | en
5.8
Murder Is My Beat
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
1955-02-27 | en
6.1
Hoodlum Empire
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
1952-04-15 | en
5.2
Over-Exposed
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
1956-04-01 | en
6.4
Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
1941-06-14 | en