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The Locket is a 1946 American psychological thriller film noir directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures.
The Locket: Directed by John Brahm. With Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond. Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics.
The Locket (1946) is a noir of nested narratives — a kleptomaniac paranoid psychoanalytic flashback within a flashback film noir which unravels one woman's secret life and haunted past. This psychological thriller directed by John Brahm stars Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and was released by RKO Pictures.
Summaries. Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced. Lovely Nancy seems like the ideal bride to fiancée John Willis... until, just before the ceremony, Willis is approached by Harry Blair, claiming to be Nancy's former husband.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Famous primarily for its unique flashback-within-a-flashback-within-a-flashback narrative structure, John Brahm’s The Locket falls down the rabbit hole that is Nancy Fuller’s (Laraine Day) criminal past. Essentially narrated by the three men in Nancy’s life, who tend to end up either dead or committed to psychiatric hospitals, the film ...
