Before I Wake (1955)

46% User Rating

1h 16min

"If I die before I wake this note will reveal The Killer..."

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

Albert S. RogellDirector

Cast

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Mona Freeman

April Haddon

Jean Kent

Florence Haddon

Maxwell Reed

Michael Elder

Hugh Miller

Mr. Driscoll

Gretchen Franklin

Elsie

Frederick Leister

Dr. Elder

Alexander Gauge

Police sergeant

Josephine Middleton

Mrs. Harrison

Frank Forsyth

Jack Storey

Stanley Van Beers

Harry

Frank Atkinson

Taxi driver

Philip Ray

Station master

Robert Sansom

Parson

Phyllis Cornell

Dr. Elder's receptionist

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CinemaSerf

Rating 60%

May 29, 2024

Though it's all entirely predicable, this, I still quite enjoyed it. "April" (Mona Freeman) returns home for the funeral of her father who was tragically killed in a boating accident. Her stepmother "Florence" (Jean Kent) shows all the outward signs of sympathy, but as the details of her father's death emerge, "April" beings to smell a rat. Things are only compounded when the reading of her father's will doesn't quite deliver what was expected! Is "Mona" just an hopeless paranoiac or might there really be danger? It's all just a little to rushed and convenient at the end, but the story is quite menacingly delivered by a jobbing cast rattling through a simple story of greed. Maxwell Reed features sparingly but adds very little to what is really a film about two strong women, some cigarettes and a few bottles of VSOP.