(1948) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
CRIME MYSTERY DRAMA
Adapted from the novel by Cornell Woolrich that has a jail cell #5 reevaluating what happened as his last meal is being brought over to him, and waiting to be put to death as a result of sentence. And just when his fellow inmates were asking him what he was charged for, is when the movie then goes back to the time that ignited the unfortunate event that happened to him. It has struggling tap dancer, Thomas J. Quinn or Tom for short waiting nervously for his wife, Ann to return to their measly one bedroom apartment. And when she does arrive, Tom then gets jealous as a result of her working as a dancing hostess. And just when both of them go to bed, cats below them begin to make some noise, motivating Tom to throw his tap dancing shoes at them. Ann orders her husband to retrieve them enlightening him that they were his "new" tapping shoes he threw out the window. When he couldn't find them, he was not able to get them back until some person left them by the apartment door on the following morning. Tom decides to get his shoes shined, he notices a murder has been committed nearby, and chooses to ignore it. Inspector Stevens is in charge of the case, we find out 70,000 was stolen from the victim, making the motivation to be robbery. Leaving nothing but a single footprint on the muddy ground. Coincidentally, the day of his neighbor was found murdered, Tom then does the dumb thing of listening to his wife about keeping $2,000 he found that had no identification instead of returning it to local authorities. And when Tom is tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution, a detective, Clint Judd manages to convince his boss, Inspector Stevens to let Ann go for the intention of tailing her, part of recovering the other $68,000. And of course, once she is let out, she then goes on the pursuit of attempting to prove her husband Tom innocent with the help of Clint.
Although, this is clearly a nightmare scenario one of the inconsistencies is the fact that if a murder were to happen, it is authorities job to ask around the area, particularly it's neighbors whether each of them had either seen or heard anything. And that that procedure was not done until much later. Other than that, it is a pretty decent whodunit movie that keeps viewers glued, until we're able to guess out the person who did it. And Eddie Muller was correct when he said that the set up is somewhat similar to Cornell Woolrich's other story "Black Angel" from 1946.
Adapted from the novel by Cornell Woolrich that has a jail cell #5 reevaluating what happened as his last meal is being brought over to him, and waiting to be put to death as a result of sentence. And just when his fellow inmates were asking him what he was charged for, is when the movie then goes back to the time that ignited the unfortunate event that happened to him. It has struggling tap dancer, Thomas J. Quinn or Tom for short waiting nervously for his wife, Ann to return to their measly one bedroom apartment. And when she does arrive, Tom then gets jealous as a result of her working as a dancing hostess. And just when both of them go to bed, cats below them begin to make some noise, motivating Tom to throw his tap dancing shoes at them. Ann orders her husband to retrieve them enlightening him that they were his "new" tapping shoes he threw out the window. When he couldn't find them, he was not able to get them back until some person left them by the apartment door on the following morning. Tom decides to get his shoes shined, he notices a murder has been committed nearby, and chooses to ignore it. Inspector Stevens is in charge of the case, we find out 70,000 was stolen from the victim, making the motivation to be robbery. Leaving nothing but a single footprint on the muddy ground. Coincidentally, the day of his neighbor was found murdered, Tom then does the dumb thing of listening to his wife about keeping $2,000 he found that had no identification instead of returning it to local authorities. And when Tom is tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution, a detective, Clint Judd manages to convince his boss, Inspector Stevens to let Ann go for the intention of tailing her, part of recovering the other $68,000. And of course, once she is let out, she then goes on the pursuit of attempting to prove her husband Tom innocent with the help of Clint.
Although, this is clearly a nightmare scenario one of the inconsistencies is the fact that if a murder were to happen, it is authorities job to ask around the area, particularly it's neighbors whether each of them had either seen or heard anything. And that that procedure was not done until much later. Other than that, it is a pretty decent whodunit movie that keeps viewers glued, until we're able to guess out the person who did it. And Eddie Muller was correct when he said that the set up is somewhat similar to Cornell Woolrich's other story "Black Angel" from 1946.