Backlash (1947)
• March 1st, 1947 • 1h 6min
Crime, Mystery
Overview
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Touch of Evil
Released on: 1958-03-30
Crime, Thriller
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...
Scarface
Released on: 1932-04-09
Crime, Drama
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
The Big Sleep
Released on: 1946-08-23
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
The Maltese Falcon
Released on: 1941-10-18
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
The Brasher Doubloon
Released on: 1947-02-06
Mystery, Crime
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...
Lady in the Lake
Released on: 1946-12-19
Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Crime of Passion
Released on: 1956-12-28
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
Angel Face
Released on: 1953-01-02
Drama, Crime
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
Laura
Released on: 1944-11-26
Drama, Mystery
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Murder, My Sweet
Released on: 1944-12-14
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...
Vertigo
Released on: 1958-05-28
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a...
Rebecca
Released on: 1940-03-23
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
The Killing
Released on: 1956-06-06
Crime, Thriller
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
Double Indemnity
Released on: 1944-07-06
Crime, Thriller
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...
The Third Man
Released on: 1949-08-31
Thriller, Mystery
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
Elevator to the Gallows
Released on: 1958-01-29
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally ...
3 Kids and a Queen
Released on: 1935-10-21
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
Out of the Past
Released on: 1947-11-25
Crime, Thriller
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...
The Lady from Shanghai
Released on: 1947-12-24
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Released on: 1959-09-10
Crime, Thriller
Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.