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A Chicago lawyer's wife, Anne Parkson (Frances Gifford) is bored and neglected. She begins meeting with one of her husband's clients, nightclub owner Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak), for interior design work. There develops an awareness between them that an affair is a possibility.
Although there are subdued phrases uttered in the dialogue from characters such as Ted and Sam Leonard (Warner Anderson) that highlight this notion, 'The Arnelo Affair' is a true film noir that shows several shades of flaws, decency, and reason in the stories, behaviours, and dialogue of its characters.
A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.
There's something uneasy inside The Arnelo Affair, an awkward attempt to present a story that is sympathetic to a wayward woman, even as it makes clear the necessity for her to regret her behavior. Based on a radio play by director Arch Oboler, the film's real source is a short story by feminist writer Jane Burr, a woman described this way on ...
- Arch Oboler
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jun 17, 2014 · The Arnelo Affair (1947) takes a familiar noir device, the flashback, and turns it on its ear. Within the first five minutes, the murder that is to consume the entire movie is detailed according to who did it, who didn't, and who will get the blame.
- Arch Oboler, Bert Glazer, Robert Shannon
- John Hodiak
Anne (Frances Gifford), a well-wedded Chicago wife on the eve of her 12th anniversary, finds herself attracted to Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak), nitery owner with a disreputable background who is a...
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While driving down a street in Chicago, Tony Arnelo, a crooked nightclub owner, tells his mistress, Anne Parkson, that he killed his former girl friend, the actress Claire Lorrison.
