Impact (1949)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
A wealthy industrialist survives his wife's murder plot on a mountain road, lets the world believe he died, and rebuilds a quiet life as a small-town mechanic — until the case against her forces him to choose between anonymity and justice.
Arthur Lubin is better remembered for Abbott and Costello comedies and a talking mule, but he plays this one straight, working the doomed-new-identity noir a few years ahead of the wave The Killers would popularize.
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