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Fear (1946)

Fear poster
Directed by
Alfred Zeisler
Genre
film noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man commits a murder and is haunted by guilt and the fear of being caught. The story follows his psychological unraveling as he tries to evade justice.

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What happens

Fear is a 1946 American low-budget film noir directed by Alfred Zeisler and produced by Monogram Pictures. The film loosely follows the main plot of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, without attribution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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