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Turner Classic Movies pick for June 9, 2008: They Won't Believe Me
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“They Won’t Believe Me,” TCM, Monday, June 9, 7:30 a.m. (EST)
When most people think of TV icon Robert Young, they think of him as the embodiment of middle-class decency he represented in the title roles of “Father Knows Best” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”
In truth, Young had a wider range than he was given credit for, giving believable performances as villains (for Alfred Hitchcock, no less) and weaklings.
In the quirky 1947 B-film noir “They Won’t Believe Me,” Young plays a combination of both as Larry Ballentine, the chronically unfaithful gigolo husband of a wealthy woman (Rita Johnson).
Larry is being tried for the murder of his mistress (Susan Hayward), but, as we learn in flashbacks, he didn’t kill her. Unfortunately for him, what really happened is so implausible that he knows the truth will be a hard sell to the jury (hence the title).
Interestingly, “They Won’t Believe Me” was produced by Hitchcock’s former assistant Joan Harrison, who later supervised his long-running TV series.
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