Cause for Alarm! Blu-ray

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Cause for Alarm! Blu-ray

Posted September 20, 2023 07:12 PM by Webmaster

ClassicFlix is preparing a Blu-ray release of Tay Garnett's film Cause for Alarm! (1951), starring Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore, and Brad Morrow. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on November 28.

Description: Married after a whirlwind courtship during World War II, suburban housewife Ellen Jones (Young) copes with the fact that her husband George (Barry Sullivan) is now a bedridden invalid. Increasingly paranoid and quick to anger, George is convinced that Ellen is having an affair with their old friend (and George's physician), Dr. Ranney Grahame (Bruce Cowling).

Afraid for his life and certain that Ellen and Ranney are conspiring to kill him by overdosing his medication, George composes a letter to the local district attorney requesting an investigation in the event of his untimely death. Ellen later unwittingly mails the letter, but upon learning of its contents shortly before George dies of natural causes, she goes to every length possible to retrieve the incriminating note!

Loretta Young gives a sensational performance in Cause for Alarm! as a woman trapped in a desperate situation, with taut direction courtesy of Tay Garnett (The Postman Always Rings Twice), and a memorable musical score by composer André Previn (My Fair Lady) who was only twenty-one at the time.

Co-written and produced by Young's then-husband Tom Lewis, who would also later produce his wife's long-running television series "The Loretta Young Show", Alarm co-stars Barry Sullivan and Bruce Cowling, and features Irving Bacon, Margalo Gillmore and Art Baker." NEWLY RESTORED BY CLASSICFLIX.