Backlash (1947 film)

Backlash is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Eugene Forde. The drama features Jean Rogers, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge and Richard Travis.

McMullen breaks the news to the lawyers wife, Catherine Jean Rogers, who identifies a ring on the body as her husbands. She soon becomes a suspect. Morlands law partner ONeil Robert Shayne believes that Catherine and district attorney Conroy Richard Travis have been having a secret affair, while his doctor says Morland once swallowed poison that his wife tried to give him.Conroy is found at the Morlands weekend getaway cabin, which is maintained by a caretaker named Willis Leonard Strong. The evidence of an affair grows until Catherine is arrested and Conroy resigns as DA. ........

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