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The Locket is a 1946 American psychological thriller film noir directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures.
The Locket: Directed by John Brahm. With Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond. Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics.
Baffled, Blair mumbles that he has been confined to an insane asylum at Nancy's instigation. Just before the wedding ceremony, Willis' mother gives Nancy a family heirloom to wear...the locket. A myriad of childhood memories stir her, and she collapses.
Robert Mitchum plays artist Norman Clyde, who had once coached Nancy to recollect a traumatic childhood incident from which sprang her immoral impulses. Brahm uses war-torn Europe as an unexpected setting in the final third of the film, an encounter in burned rubble one of the film’s highlights.
The Locket (1946) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
