Loretta Young

Here is a film operating on a simple enough premise that successfully winds up the tension with the greatest of ease. Just like little mechanical toys start performing their carefully programmed routines when wound up, so do the wonderfully suspenseful elements of Tay Gernett’s Cause for Alarm add on to the stress Ellen lives through in order to protect her innocence all the while preventing anyone from discovering her husband’s dead body in the bedroom upstairs.

After all the dust had settled and leaked blood had dried following the nightmare that was World War II, the Allied states co-organized a special commission for the purpose of investigating the details thought out by the sick minds of the Nazi regime who perpetrated the ghastly horrors in Europe.