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Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk Softly, Stranger is a 1950 American romantic drama film starring Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli and directed by Robert Stevenson. Also regarded by some as a film noir or crime film, it tells the story of a small-time crook on the run who is reformed by the love of a disabled woman.
The film's supporting cast features Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, Jack Paar and John McIntire.
When Chris Hale arrives at the doorstep of his childhood Ohio home, the current resident, widow Mrs. Brentman, invites him to enter. Chris, who is unemployed, accepts Mrs. Brentman's offer of a room and takes a job in the shipping department of the Corelli shoe factory. He meets Elaine Corelli, his boss's beautiful but paralyzed daughter. Speaking of the days when he used to deliver newspapers to her door and adored her from afar, Chris amuses and fascinates her. The next day, Chris is summoned to see Elaine's father A. J., who tells him that Elaine was so taken with him that she asked that he be given a better job in sales. Chris declines the offer but assures Corelli, who is devoted to his daughter, that he will explain his decision to Elaine. Chris, a confessed gambler and drifter, offers Elaine a vague explanation.
The next morning, Chris flies to another city for a rendezvous with petty criminal Whitey Lake, who calls him Steve. Chris and Whitey rob gambling-house owner Bowen of $200,000 in cash, knowing that the crime will never be reported. After splitting the money and advising Whitey to disappear, Chris returns to Ohio and takes Elaine to a working-class nightclub where she becomes despondent watching him dance with another girl. Sure that Chris will resent her paralysis, Elaine suddenly departs to Florida. When she returns at Christmas, Chris resumes his pursuit, and by New Year's Eve, they are deeply in love.
Whitey appears, broke and scared. Chris insists that Whitey, who is being chased by Bowen, stay confined to Mrs. Brentman's house until he can devise an escape plan. Whitey ransacks Chris' room in search of Chris' share of the stolen money. When he learns that Chris is sending Mrs. Brentman to see her son's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Whitey becomes convinced that Chris intends to kill him during her absence.
Driving home after delivering Mrs. Brentman to the airport, Chris realizes that he is being followed by two men. He confesses the truth to Elaine, who advises him to return the money. Elaine also reveals that she has known all along that he had been lying about his past, because Chris claimed to have admired her as a young girl even though she had not lived there as a child.
When Chris returns to Mrs. Brentman's house, it is apparent that Whitey has been killed and the money reclaimed. The killers take Chris to see Bowen, who knows that Chris has been scheming to rob the Corellis and wants a piece of the action. During a wild struggle in Bowen's car, Bowen shoots Chris and the car crashes.
Chris survives and is treated in the prison wing of the hospital. When he has sufficiently recuperated and is about to be transferred to prison, Elaine visits and vows to wait until his release, when he will finally need her in the way that she has always needed him.
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Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk Softly, Stranger is a 1950 American romantic drama film starring Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli and directed by Robert Stevenson. Also regarded by some as a film noir or crime film, it tells the story of a small-time crook on the run who is reformed by the love of a disabled woman.
The film's supporting cast features Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, Jack Paar and John McIntire.
When Chris Hale arrives at the doorstep of his childhood Ohio home, the current resident, widow Mrs. Brentman, invites him to enter. Chris, who is unemployed, accepts Mrs. Brentman's offer of a room and takes a job in the shipping department of the Corelli shoe factory. He meets Elaine Corelli, his boss's beautiful but paralyzed daughter. Speaking of the days when he used to deliver newspapers to her door and adored her from afar, Chris amuses and fascinates her. The next day, Chris is summoned to see Elaine's father A. J., who tells him that Elaine was so taken with him that she asked that he be given a better job in sales. Chris declines the offer but assures Corelli, who is devoted to his daughter, that he will explain his decision to Elaine. Chris, a confessed gambler and drifter, offers Elaine a vague explanation.
The next morning, Chris flies to another city for a rendezvous with petty criminal Whitey Lake, who calls him Steve. Chris and Whitey rob gambling-house owner Bowen of $200,000 in cash, knowing that the crime will never be reported. After splitting the money and advising Whitey to disappear, Chris returns to Ohio and takes Elaine to a working-class nightclub where she becomes despondent watching him dance with another girl. Sure that Chris will resent her paralysis, Elaine suddenly departs to Florida. When she returns at Christmas, Chris resumes his pursuit, and by New Year's Eve, they are deeply in love.
Whitey appears, broke and scared. Chris insists that Whitey, who is being chased by Bowen, stay confined to Mrs. Brentman's house until he can devise an escape plan. Whitey ransacks Chris' room in search of Chris' share of the stolen money. When he learns that Chris is sending Mrs. Brentman to see her son's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Whitey becomes convinced that Chris intends to kill him during her absence.
Driving home after delivering Mrs. Brentman to the airport, Chris realizes that he is being followed by two men. He confesses the truth to Elaine, who advises him to return the money. Elaine also reveals that she has known all along that he had been lying about his past, because Chris claimed to have admired her as a young girl even though she had not lived there as a child.
When Chris returns to Mrs. Brentman's house, it is apparent that Whitey has been killed and the money reclaimed. The killers take Chris to see Bowen, who knows that Chris has been scheming to rob the Corellis and wants a piece of the action. During a wild struggle in Bowen's car, Bowen shoots Chris and the car crashes.
Chris survives and is treated in the prison wing of the hospital. When he has sufficiently recuperated and is about to be transferred to prison, Elaine visits and vows to wait until his release, when he will finally need her in the way that she has always needed him.