Fear (1946) DVD-R

Starring Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Francis Pierlot, Nestor Paiva
Directed by Alfred Zeisler

Print: black/white
Runtime: 68 min.
Genre: Film-noir

In this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing, he's tormented by guilt over what he's done. A police captain, who's convinced the student committed the crime but can't prove it for lack of evidence, plays on the young man's guilt in order to get him to confess to the crime.