The Accused

IMDb link: 0040071
IMDb rating: 6.8 (1,236 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Romance, Film-Noir
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Robert Cummings, Loretta Young, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe and others

Release date: 16 May 1949
Release year: 1949
Runtime: 101 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: cigar smoking, older woman younger man relationship, voice over narration, bare chested man, psychology, psychology professor, guardian, college professor, attempted rape, college

Plot:

Wilma Tuttle, psychology professor, lets aggressively brash student Bill Perry drive her home. Big mistake. After an attempted rape, Perry is dead; panicked, Wilma hides her traces and flees. As time passes, she watches the investigations of Homicide Lt. Dorgan with painfully concealed apprehension. Complicating matters: her budding romance with Warren Ford, Perry's guardian. How long can she stand the strain?

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