Escape in the Fog

Apr 5, 1945

1h 3m

★ 5.3

Slipping silently out of the fog... came murder!

Overview

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Paul Devon

Otto Kruger

Eileen Carr

Nina Foch

Barry Malcolm

William Wright

Schiller

Konstantin Shayne

Hausmer, Schiller's Henchman

Ivan Triesault

George Smith

Ernie Adams

Woman at Accident (uncredited)

Jessie Arnold

Chinese Boy (uncredited)

Chin Kuang Chow

Detective (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Accident Witness (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Kolb - Henchman (uncredited)

Noel Cravat

Hilary Gale (uncredited)

Leslie Denison

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