The main problem is Young looks like a smarmy prick. Harrison was a writer for Hitchcock on Jamaica Inn – one of the few movies by Hitch I’ve never seen – and stuck…, A list of 100 essential film noir movies, according to me. I do like the use of an unreliable narrator and it's nice to see four main characters with a surprising amount of depth and nuance in this type of film. Is the title of the film a reference to the audience? Femme fatale= beautiful seductress who manipulates men for her personal gain. Ironically, Larry doesn't kill anyone, although he may have wanted them dead. Since Robert Young's actions are so dumb for virtually the entire film, it's hard to believe someone is that stupid and pathetic? Genres; Cast. Writer. Jane Greer's strength to chuck him over and then participate in his demise saves the film for me. (IMDb). Not a top-tier noir, but well worth watching. Very much OK. More melodrama than mystery. John lattimer did the screenplay, Produced by Joan Harrison. The outcome is the same; death/consequences, but the journey is much different. NOTE: There is a new and improved version of this list currently being compiled. This was the feature film on TCM Noir Alley. Robert Young narrates this tangled tale of adultery, accidental death and mistaken identity from the dock of a courtroom where he is accused of murder. She was also a protégé of Alfred Hitchcock. It's been a long time since I first watched this and all I remembered about it was Robert Young was a dreadful man. His girlfriend dies in a car accident as she and Larry are running off to Reno, and her burned body is mistaken for his wife. Well-crafted story with a BS finale. That was all good. Who knew Father Knows Best / Marcus Welby was such a horndog? Susan Hayward Robert Young Jane Greer Rita Johnson Tom Powers George Tyne Don Beddoe Frank Ferguson Harry Harvey. Show all Cast & Crew . Told in woozy flashback with the help of an excessive first-person voiceover, it's no great shakes in terms of direction or dialogue, though the far-fetched story is consistently interesting for the first hour, the characterisation deals in a few shades of grey, and pouty Hayward - talking out of the side of her face - is very lively…. Rewatched this NOIR ALLEY replay, this time with author Christina Lane bookending the film with Eddie to talk about the film and the film’s producer who she wrote a book about, PHANTOM LADY. In the land of noir ‘They Won’t Believe Me’ keeps you guessing since it doesn’t follow the standard rules of a Hollywood crime drama. Both his wife and his girlfriend are dead. That opinion remains the same upon a second viewing. Harrison is interesting because she was, of course, a woman. On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death. Both his wife and his girlfriend are dead. IMDb You're about as dependable as a four-year-old child.". Earn 125 points on every ticket you buy. More details at I like that I wasn't able to guess what really happened. Check out 'Let Him Go,' 'The Informer' and our favorite movie spies, Final girls, scream queens and the fiercest femmes, Find safety procedures announced by your theater, Nat Wolff can shoot lightning in this exclusive clip from 'Mortal', What to Watch on FandangoNOW: Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor,’ Eva Green in ‘Proxima’ and More, This Week in Movie News: ‘The People Under the Stairs’ and ‘The Painter and the Thief’ Set for Remakes and More. Elmo Williams. There are some fun twists in the 3rd act and a pretty crazy ending, but otherwise this is a pretty low key noir, lacking the visceral excitement that really makes the genre great. Overall, a good story. We see the story in flashback from that point on, when he meets Susan Hayward's Verna and wishes to give up Jane Greer's Greta - but fate has something else in store for him. Fandango helps you go back to the movies with confidence and peace of mind. It goes without saying that he soon resumes his philandering ways in this often cynical, Cain-esque cautionary tale. This is a watchable but intensely daft melonoirma (this is my new word), with Robert Young as a weak-willed philanderer on trial for the murder of his wife, and regaling the jurors with the story of his life - and his dalliances with a variety of unstable women, including Susan Hayward and Jane Greer. It didn't necessarily start off all that promisingly (aside from the sight of Frank Ferguson in a non-western) by setting up that it was going to be a mostly flashback-driven narrative that would also…. It was mostly forgotten B-movies, a couple of which I've seen, and there was certainly nothing there to suggest he could have been responsible for something as good as They Won't Believe Me. They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 black-and-white film noir directed by Irving Pichel and starring Robert Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Greer.It was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison.