Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei rarangi - Ko te Matapihi he kiriata noir pango-ma-ma-Amerika no te 1949, i runga i te korero poto "The Boy Cried Murder" (kua taarua ano hei "Fire Escape") na Cornell Woolrich mo te tamaiti teka e whakapae ana he kaikohuru ona hoa tata. Ko te kiriata, he angitu nui, i hangaia e Frederic Ullman Jr. mo te $ 210,000 engari he nui ake te moni i whiwhi ai, na reira he hit box office mo RKO Pictures. I whakahaeretia te kiriata e Ted Tetzlaff, i mahi hei kaitango whakaahua i runga i nga kiriata 100, tae atu ki tetahi atu kiriata whakaoho angitu, Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946). Mo tana mahi i roto i tenei kiriata, i whakawhiwhia a Bobby Driscoll ki tetahi whakapakoko Oscar iti hei kaiwhakaari taiohi tino pai o te 1949 i nga Tohu Academy 1950
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