Sleep, My Love
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| Directed by | Douglas Sirk |
| Produced by | Ralph Cohn Mary Pickford Charles Rogers Harold Greene (associate producer) |
| Written by | St. Clair McKelway Leo Rosten (novel & screenplay) Decla Dunning (uncredited) Cy Endfield (uncredited) |
| Starring | Claudette Colbert Robert Cummings Don Ameche |
| Music by | Rudy Schrager |
| Cinematography | Joseph A. Valentine |
| Editing by | Lynn Harrison |
| Studio | Triangle Production |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | February 18, 1948 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sleep, My Love (1948) is a feature film directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche.
Plot [edit]
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, hasn't a clue how she ended up on a train bound for Boston. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and learn from Richard that his wife has threatened him with a gun.
On a flight home, fellow passenger Bruce Elcott falls in love with the married but unhappy Alison. Her husband makes Alison begin seeing Dr. Rhinehart, a psychiatrist. But it turns out that Rhinehart is a fake. He is actually Charles Vernay, a photographer hired by Richard Courtland, who is having an affair with another woman and hopes to get rid of Alison for good.
The scheme is to drive Alison to suicide and inherit her money. Elcott arrives just in time to find Alison, apparently under hypnosis, about to leap from a balcony to her death.
Elcott discovers that Vernay is the man who pretended to be the doctor. Richard, meanwhile, attempts to drug Alison and make her kill the doctor herself. Vernay finds out he has been betrayed. Verney then shoots Richard and is later killed by falling through a skylight after being chased by Elcott. It appears Elcott and Alison live happily ever after.
Cast [edit]
- Claudette Colbert as Alison Courtland
- Robert Cummings as Bruce Elcott
- Don Ameche as Richard W. Courtland
- Rita Johnson as Barby
- George Coulouris as Charles Vernay
- Queenie Smith as Mrs. Grace Vernay
- Ralph Morgan as Dr. Rhinehart
- Keye Luke as Jimmie Lin
- Fred Nurney as Haskins
- Raymond Burr as Detective Sgt. Strake
- Marya Marco as Jeannie Lin (as Maria San Marco)
- Lillian Bronson as Helen, the Maid
- Hazel Brooks as Daphne
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External links [edit]
- Sleep, My Love at the TCM Movie Database
- Sleep, My Love at the Internet Movie Database
- Sleep, My Love at AllRovi
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