{"id":36854,"date":"2024-09-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36854"},"modified":"2024-09-28T22:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T02:42:35","slug":"36854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36854","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dead Ringer&#8221; (1964) starring Bette Davis, Karl Malden &amp; Peter Lawford \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092824zview_deadringer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Dead Ringer<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1964)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Paul Henreid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Albert Beich, Oscar Millard;<\/strong> based on <em>The Other<\/em> aka <em>Dead Pigeon\u00a0<\/em>by <strong>Rian James<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bette Davis, Karl Malden<\/strong><strong>, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey, Jean Hagen, George Macready, Estelle Winwood, George Chandler, Cyril Delevanti, Monika Henreid, Ken Lynch, Henry Beckman <\/strong>and <strong>Bert Remsen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Mirror, mirror, on the wall, now who&#8217;s the fairest twin of all?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For nearly two decades, twin sisters Margaret and Edith (Davis) haven&#8217;t spoken.\u00a0 Their friendship ended when Margaret cheated with Edith&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 Frank DeLorca.\u00a0 To add insult, Margaret faked being pregnant and married the extremely wealthy man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Margaret got the life of luxury.\u00a0 Money, a mansion, maids and a butler.\u00a0 Edith barely got by.\u00a0 With each passing year Edith has grown more bitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So when Edith sees a funeral notice for Frank, she decides it is time for revenge.\u00a0 Edith and Margaret are identical sisters.\u00a0 No one can tell them apart by looking.\u00a0 So if Edith killed Margaret and took her place who would know?<\/p>\n<p>Who would know indeed.\u00a0 The best laid plans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Paul Henreid is best known as the actor who played Laszlo in <em>Casablanca<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Dead Ringer<\/b><\/i> (1964)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092824zview_deadringer2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Ringer (1964) Director: Paul Henreid Screenplay: Albert Beich, Oscar Millard; based on The Other aka Dead Pigeon\u00a0by Rian James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37107,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36854\/revisions\/37107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}