{"id":1224,"date":"2006-07-05T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-01-06T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T04:07:04","slug":"among-the-living-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Among the Living (1941)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;For five thousand dollars, I&#8217;m not afraid of anything &#8212; not even death!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster-116x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster-116x300.png 116w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster-395x1024.png 395w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster-49x128.png 49w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster-104x270.png 104w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Among-the-Living-Poster.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nUpon the death of his industrialist father, John (Albert Dekker) learns that his &#8220;dead&#8221; twin brother Paul (also Dekker) is actually alive but insane. After years of being kept secretly locked up, Paul escapes from his keeper (Ernest Whitman) and tries to live a &#8220;normal&#8221; life, but finds himself killing again and again; meanwhile, the gold digging daughter (Susan Hayward) of Paul&#8217;s new landlady (Maude Eburne) is determined to earn the $5,000 award offered for locating the &#8220;mysterious&#8221; killer. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amateur Sleuths<\/li>\n<li>Frances Farmer Films<\/li>\n<li>Gold Diggers<\/li>\n<li>Mental Illness<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<li>Susan Hayward Films<\/li>\n<li>Twins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;impressive &#8216;B&#8217; movie&#8221; (directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/stuart+heisler?cat=entertainment&#038;y=0&#038;x=0\">Stuart Heisler<\/a>) features &#8220;good acting and direction&#8221; as well as plenty of &#8220;suspense&#8221; and &#8220;mill-town atmosphere.&#8221; Indeed, at just 68-minutes, <em>Among the Living <\/em>is chock-full of all the necessary ingredients for an exciting B-level thriller: a funeral, a mysterious rash of murders, insanity, childhood secrets, amateur sleuths, shady doctors, gold diggers, <em>noir<\/em>-ish cinematography, and more. As in Robert Siodmak&#8217;s 1946 film <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35\"><em>The Dark Mirror<\/em><\/a> (starring Olivia De Haviland), the theme of doppelganger twins &#8212; one &#8220;good&#8221;, one &#8220;evil&#8221; &#8212; is milked here for all its worth, to satisfying effect (Dekker is well-suited to his dual roles). Indeed, the performances throughout are all fine, with Susan Hayward particularly noteworthy as a gold-digging mill worker who doesn&#8217;t realize the killer she&#8217;s greedily looking for is standing right beside her. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Hayward as the scheming gold digger who unknowingly puts herself in harm&#8217;s way<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Hayward2.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Hayward2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1981\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Albert Dekker&#8217;s effective performance in dual roles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Dekker.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Dekker.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1982\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Frances Farmer in a small, somewhat thankless role as John&#8217;s wife<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Farmer.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Farmer.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1983\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s an excellent thriller, and well worth watching if you can find a copy. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0033337\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For five thousand dollars, I&#8217;m not afraid of anything &#8212; not even death!&#8221; Synopsis: Upon the death of his industrialist father, John (Albert Dekker) learns that his &#8220;dead&#8221; twin brother Paul (also Dekker) is actually alive but insane. After years of being kept secretly locked up, Paul escapes from his keeper (Ernest Whitman) and tries to live a &#8220;normal&#8221; life, but finds himself killing again and again; meanwhile, the gold digging daughter (Susan Hayward) of Paul&#8217;s new landlady (Maude Eburne)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1224\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62023,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/62023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}