Film Forum
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The Prowler
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Mar 19, 2010 – Mar 25, 2010
Daily
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$12
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Film Forum says:
“I’m not any worse than anyone else,” protests Van Heflin’s uniformed cop Webb Garwood (“as gabby and depraved as a Jim Thompson character” – Philippe Garnier). But when he and his partner take a prowler call and find neglected wife and failed actress Evelyn Keyes (Scarlett’s sister in Gone With The Wind and the then-Mrs. John Huston) alone in an echoing Spanish house, even as her d.j. hubby declaims on late night radio, Heflin suddenly has law-breaking on his mind. But after hubby has been eliminated in an “accident” and Heflin’s got the girl, the money, and now that motel he’s always dreamed about, she’s pregnant with... whose baby? (Censor Joseph Breen complained of the picture’s “extremely low moral tone, with emphasis on almost animal-like instincts and passion.”) Co-scripted uncredited by blacklisted Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo, designed uncredited by (later blacklisted) John Hubley, shot by three-time Oscar winner Arthur Miller, and produced by Sam Spiegel (Lawrence of Arabia, etc.), Prowler was shot fast — 17 days — with its finale in a Mojave Desert ghost town, where the dead man’s voice — on a forgotten tape — echoes eerily.
