The Dark Past

Based on 1939's BLIND ALLEY (play and film), this fast psychological drama is just a little too slick for its own good in that it offers audiences sort of a Reader's Digest lesson in how the criminal mind functions. Not unlike THE DESPERATE HOURS in theme, THE DARK PAST is the story of pipe-smoking Cobb, a psychiatrist, and Holden, an escaped criminal, and how one conquers the other. Cobb, Maxwell, Hyatt, Graff, and Jergens are at Cobb's cabin near a beautiful lake, waiting for the arrival of fellow professor Geray, when the radio announces that a killer has escaped from a nearby prison. Almost immediately, said killer, Holden, breaks into the cabin with his a...