Strange Impersonation (film)

Strange Impersonation is a 1946 film noir directed by Anthony Mann, featuring Brenda Marshall, William Gargan and Hillary Brooke.

Republic released Strange Impersonation in March 1946, three months after it was approved by the Production Code Administration. Its West Coast performance was not as good as on the East Coast, which author Max Alvarez attributes to supporting a better feature in New York City.Film critic Glenn Erickson is positive about the film, writing, Strange Impersonation is a fun oddity, a female version of The Scar Hollow Triumph or perhaps The Woman in the Window but without an organized crime angle. Its the kind of Cornell Woolrich yarn that depends on an unlikely but entertaining twist concept. ... The future director of El Cid and a halfdozen landmark James Stewart westerns shows a flair for dramatic confrontations. Strange Impersonation never looks cheap even though its limited cast works in just a few sets. Not surprisingly, the underlying message implies that if professional women want to be happy, they need to stop working and marry. Writing in The Crime Films of Anthony Mann, Alvarez says, Irrespective of his reservations and despite its unsatisfying conclusion, the picture is an ingenious and frenzied little thriller. William Darby, who wrote Anthony Mann The Film Career, said that the film uneasily moves between film noir and womans picture with the latter tendency ultimately winning out. ........

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