Crack-Up

IMDb link: 0038429
IMDb rating: 6.5 (1,994 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Pat O'Brien, Ray Collins and others

Release date: 6 Sep 1946
Release year: 1946
Runtime: 93 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: shot in the back, based on magazine story, in medias res, psychological mystery, trapped in a room, gaslighting, ptsd post traumatic stress disorder, ransacked apartment, fugitive, theft

Plot:

George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturnal train trip. He suddenly sees another train ahead, speeding toward his... Is George indeed cracking up, or is there a plot to discredit him? The mystery grows murky with shadowy menace...

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