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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously portrayed a wife murderer (the other was The Two Mrs. Carrolls). Bogie plays unhappily married Richard Mason, who concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife, Kathryn (Rose Hobart), so that he'll be free to marry her sister, Evelyn (Alexis Smith).

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You see, Doctor Hamilton belongs to the Freudian school of psychology, he believes that love rather than money is the root of all evil. Conflict is directed by Curtis Bernhardt and collectively written by Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor, Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake and Grant Mitchell. Music is by Frederick Hollander and cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad.Still under exposed after all these years, Conflict is deserving of reappraisals by the film noir crowd. Plot has Richard Mason (Bogart) stuck in a loveless marriage to Kathryn (Hobart), with his misery further compounded by the fact hes in love with his sister-in-law, Evelyn (Smith). Finally having enough, Richard murders his wife and intends to woo the younger Evelyn into his life. However, when Richard starts glimpsing his wife out in the city and little items of hers start turning up, Richard starts to doubt his own mind.In essence its a psychological thriller spiced with German Expressionism, perhaps unsurprising given that Bernhardt and Siodmak are key components of the production. The psychoanalysis angle played out would of course become a big feature in the film noir cycle, and here it makes for a most interesting story as Bernhardt and Gerstad dress it up in looming shadows, rain sodden streets and treacherous mountain roads. The pungent air of fatalism is evident throughout, the pace of the piece purposely sedate to marry up with the sombre tones as Richard Mason, a disturbed menace, him self becomes menaced.Ok, you dont have to be an ace detective to figure out just exactly what is going on, so the reveal at films closure lacks a bit of a punch, but the atmospherically tinged journey is well worth undertaking regardless. Bernhardts camera is often like some peeping tom spying on the warped machinations of Mason, and all the while Hollander adds thematically compliant music to proceedings. Bogart was pretty much press ganged into making the picture, but come the final product its evident that even though he may have been unhappy initially, he ended up delivering one the most intriguing turns in his wonderful career.Greenstreet is his usual presence, here playing the psychiatrist family friend who delivers the telling lines whilst being ahead of the game. Unfortunately the two principal lady characters arent done any favours by the otherwise taut screenplay, especially Evelyn, who as the catalyst for the sinister shadings never gets chance to build a strong emotional bridge to Richard Masons psychological make-up. Still, when you got Bogart as an unhinged killer attired in trench-coat and fedora, and a director who knows how to place him in the right visual scenarios, the flaws cant kill the films strengths. 7/10

Movie details Conflict

Release : 1945-06-15
Genre : Thriller, Film Noir
Runtime : 86 minutes
Company : Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

	Humphrey Bogart	as	Richard Mason
	Alexis Smith	as	Evelyn Turner
	Sydney Greenstreet	as	Dr. Mark Hamilton
	Rose Hobart	as	Kathryn Mason
	Charles Drake	as	Prof. Norman Holsworth
	Grant Mitchell	as	Dr. Grant
	Patrick O'Moore	as	Det. Lt. Egan (as Pat O'Moore)
	Ann Shoemaker	as	Nora Grant
	Edwin Stanley	as	Phillips (as Ed Stanley)
	Frank Wilcox	as	Freston
	Bess Flowers	as	Guest at Rainbow Lodge
	Oliver Blake	as	First pawnbroker
	Harlan Briggs	as	Second pawnbroker
	John Harmon	as	Pickpocket
	Mary Servoss	as	Apartment owner
	Marjorie Hoshelle	as	Switchboard operator

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