Dem Satan singt man keine Lieder (1951)
12KDem Satan singt man keine Lieder: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren. After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn’t in the way.
“In this case, Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes) sees a prowler standing outside her window and calls the police. She has the misfortune of one of those officers being whining scheming Web Garwood (Van Heflin), who sees Susan as not too hard on the eyes and also that she is the lonely young wife of a middle aged radio show cornball. Oh, and the cornball just happens to be wealthy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUsually you can see some good or mitigating factors in a film villain, but Webb is bad to the bone. He thinks heu0026#39;s been the victim all of his life, and he hates being u0026quot;just another dumb copu0026quot;. And Susan buys his lines. Did he plan what happened all along? I donu0026#39;t know, but I donu0026#39;t see how he could have figured it any other way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut then a monkey wrench gets thrown into his path that will tell the whole world what he is just when he thinks he is home free. But this is the production code era, so it had to be that way. But at least the way he is found out is rather unique. With John Maxwell as Bud Crocker, Webbu0026#39;s cop friend/partner who would drive anyone crazy with his endless dull talk about rocks.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHighly recommended for those of you who like film noirs.”
