Watch They Won't Believe Me (1947) Free Online

Release Date: 1947

Cast: Jane Greer, Robert Young, Susan Hayward

Categories: Movies, Black-and-white, Film noir, Crime Drama

They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 drama film starring Susan Hayward. The black-and-white film noir was directed by Irving Pichel. The film was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison. The film tells the story of a man's relationships with three women, leading to an ironic murder charge. As the film begins the accused man, Larry Ballentine (Young) stands trial for the killing of his lover (Hayward). He tells his story in flashback; revealing himself as a duplicitous husband whose marriage for money nonetheless overrules the substantial relationships... MORE

They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 drama film starring Susan Hayward. The black-and-white film noir was directed by Irving Pichel. The film was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison. The film tells the story of a man's relationships with three women, leading to an ironic murder charge. As the film begins the accused man, Larry Ballentine (Young) stands trial for the killing of his lover (Hayward). He tells his story in flashback; revealing himself as a duplicitous husband whose marriage for money nonetheless overrules the substantial relationships he builds with other women. When he seems finally to have made the break with a woman he loves (Hayward), a freak car accident leaves him alone but in a position to plot for his wife's money without the wife. If we are to take such a man at his word, he is innocent of murder but, in a final interview with his now reconciled first lover (Greer), finally confronting his worth. Back in court, and before the jury's verdict is delivered, Ballentine takes his life in his own hands. Dennis Schwartz, in a 2003 review of the film, called the film, "An outstanding film noir melodrama whose adultery tale is LESS