Conflict (1945 film)

Conflict is a 1945 blackandwhite suspense film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt, produced by William Jacobs with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Arthur T. Horman and Dwight Taylor, based on the story The Pentacle by Alfred Neumann and Robert Siodmak. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, and Sydney Greenstreet. The film is the only one in which Bogart and Greenstreet costarred where Bogart, not Greenstreet, is the villain or corrupt character.

Richard pretends to require a wheelchair, even after his leg has healed his puzzled physician, Doctor Grant Grant Mitchell, diagnoses the problem as psychological, not physical. He suggests exercise, so a car trip to a mountain resort is arranged. At the last minute, Richard has to stay home to do some work he has Kathryn go on ahead by herself. She is blocked on a narrow deserted mountain road by a parked car. Richard walks unexpectedly out of the fog and kills her. Afterward, he pushes her car down a steep slope it dislodges some logs which crash down and hide the automobile. He returns home in time to set up an alibi by meeting with employees he had summoned. He then notifies the police that she is missing.However, things happen to make Richard wonder if Kathryn somehow survived. First, a hobo is picked up by the police when Richard and Evelyn identify a cameo ring found in his possession as belonging to the missing woman, the tramp admits to having stolen it from a woman matching Kathryns description after her disappearance. Then Richard smells Kathryns perfume in their bedroom. He later finds her key to a home safe when he opens the safe, her wedding ring is inside. ........

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