Shed No Tears

"Something always happened to her men..."

Jun 9 1948 Approved 1h 10m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.

Plot

Edna Grover convinces her husband, Sam, to enter a scheme where they can defraud his insurance company out of $50,000, so they can live in luxury. Sam forgets to ask Edna who 'they' is. Edna's definition of 'they' is herself and her lover, Ray Belden. There is a hotel fire, and Edna identifies the body in the fire as her husband Sam. Meanwhile, Sam flees to another city under an assumed name, where he waits for his loving-spouse to join him and they can live a life of luxury. He waits. And waits some more. And returns to ask Edna just what the delay is, and learns that the delay is another man. Before long, there is another dead man, and then a blackmailing private detective shows up, and then a police detective starts nosing around, and Sam still hasn't seen any money nor a life of luxury.

Written by

Brown Holmes, Virginia M. Cooke, Don Martin

Directed by

Jean Yarbrough

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Equity Pictures Corporation

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
545
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA