Alicia I love this movie so much

Lawbolisted Powerful

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

JohnHowardReid A King Brothers Production. Copyright 19 August 1944 by Monogram Pictures Corp. New York opening in November 1944 at the Brooklyn Strand (which meant no New York opening so far as most critics were concerned). U.S. release: 21 August 1944. U.K. release through Pathé: 9 April 1945. Australian release through British Empire Films: 6 May 1945. 6,169 feet. 68 minutes. Re-issue title (with Mitchum top-billed): BETRAYED.SYNOPSIS: Worried when her new husband, Paul, forces her to go into hiding with him, Millie Baxter is further frightened when her loyalty makes her flee with him from the law. Police Detective Blake (Neil Hamilton), involved in the case, becomes suspicious of Millie's ex-boyfriend, Fred, and decides that he knows more of the crime than he has divulged. Discovered and arrested, Paul admits that he was at a bar in Philadelphia where the murdered man was last seen alive.COMMENT: A classic B-grade thriller, William Castle's second film as a full director (he was previously a dialogue director) shows a great deal of promise, which, alas, was never exceeded in his later films. Though already, he shows his predilection for a "gimmick" in this case the casting of inexperienced Robert Mitchum in a key role. Castle's tendency to imitate the successes of other directors is also on display, in this case Hitchcock's screaming cleaning woman over the whistle of a train. Ira Morgan's superb photography contributes a great deal to the mood and the art direction is suitably drab.

Hollywoodshack There is a ridiculous amount of mood and tension over opening envelopes, finding notes slipped under a door, montages, shadowy doorways and streets, phones and doorbells ringing, et cetera. Mitchum and Hunter do well in spite of their material where Hunter marries a man she only met three times (Jagger) and Michum is the man she turned down, which makes it kind of senseless that Hunter and Mitchum are always such close friends where he even wants to volunteer to find the missing husband (being turned down, wouldn't he hope a divorce results if the husband doesn't come back?) and help locate the silk stocking strangler. Of course toward the end you might guess who the strangler really is before you find out. This premise is interesting, but suspense is built too often in montages, fantasies, and moody music instead of through the story and characters.

mark.waltz Monogram produced a lot of stinkers, but they also had their share of classics. "When Strangers Marry" (under its re-release title "Betrayed" for the DVD), is one of the best. Ingenue Kim Hunter, years before Brando emotionally screamed "Stella!" to get her attention, plays an innocent young girl from Ohio who has been married for only a month to a man she hardly knew. In fact, he immediately went on the road on business, and has just sent for her to meet him in New York when she arrives and runs into an old flame (Robert Mitchum). The husband remains mysteriously out of site for a while, so she gets reacquainted with Mitchum before finally encountering her husband (Dean Jagger). It becomes apparent the moment he shows up that he is in trouble and may be the killer of a drunk man he admits to having rolled in Philadelphia.The fast-moving film noir like mystery presents its facts, adds on a couple more clues, and delivers the truth with a neat little twist that remains surprising even if it was a bit predictable. Neil Hamilton, an early 30's leading man (and later the police commissioner on "Batman") is fine as the investigator whom Mitchum and Hunter go to see to find Jagger. Hunter shows great promise and within a few years, would go onto film immortality in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and gain cult status by donning heavy make-up as Zira in "Planet of the Apes". Mitchum and Jagger are fine as well. This was one of Mitchum's first major roles after tons of walk-ons, and within a year of this, would be one of Hollywood's most popular "tough men", a new breed of leading actors like Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster that would change the way Hollywood made movies. This is a definite must see for fans of '40's "B" features.

GManfred This picture sounds a lot better than it actually is. Given the big name cast and Director, expectations are high but it doesn't deliver. One big flaw is the storyline, which is completely preposterous and with some of the most absurd contrived coincidences in the annals of mysteries. 'Betrayed' is disguised as a film noir but it is a feeble attempt at melodrama using 40 watt light bulbs to create film noir ambiance. (for the record, I've tried 6 times to spell ambiance the correct way, -ence, but the website won't take it).I think the main culprit is Castle, who allows his story to stop at unexplained dead ends and manufactures situations for his players which don't hold water and make good actors look bad. And there is not one lick of tension or suspense in any scene in the picture.It is a Monogram production and the lack of a big budget is understandable, but comparisons between Castle and Hitchcock are laughable. With such material, Hitchcock could have gotten at least an Academy Award nomination - or at least a coherent plot.Can't recommend it, and if you get a chance to see it, miss it. Or, catch it and see if you, too, feel IMDb's present rating of 6.8 is way off the mark.