Fear (1946 film)

Infobox Film | name =Fear


caption =Fear 1946 movie poster
director = Alfred Zeisler
producer = Lindsley Parsons
writer =Dennis Cooper
Alfred Zeisler
starring =Peter Cookson
Warren William
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Monogram Pictures Corporation
released = March 2, 1946 (U.S. release)
runtime = 54 min. / 68 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0038524

"Fear" is a low-budget suspense film released in 1946. The film is considered a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Plot

A broke medical student in desperate need of tuition money sells everything he owns to a dishonest professor. When the student's scholarship is suddenly taken from him, he flies into a rage and kills the professor, whom he feels is responsible for his situation. His life then begins to improve after that. But, as the student grows more reckless, and police suspicion continues to grow.

Reaction

Film historians Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward give the B-movie a positive review. "This low budget film is hardly pure Dostoevsky, but it has a visual style superior to and more cohesive than the typical Monogram product." ref|book1

Featured cast

References

#cite book | author= Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward| title=Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style | publisher =The Overlook Press | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-87951-479-5