Shed No Tears (1948) [Film Noir] [Crime] [Drama]

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Edna Grover (Vincent) convinces her older husband Sam (Ford) to fake his own death so they can collect on the life insurance. He hides in another city under an assumed name while she identifies a burned body found after a hotel fire as her husband. Edna collects the money but she has been having an affair for some time and double-crosses her husband. The whole situation rouses the suspicions of the Sam’s son from a previous marriage who hires a private investigator to look into it. Unfortunately the PI is crooked and Edna pays him to stay silent. In the end, when Sam finds out about Edna’s secret lover (Roberts), he is so distraught that he commits suicide.

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Directed by Jean Yarbrough, produced by Robert Frost, written by Brown Holmes and Virginia M. Cooke, story by Don Martin, starring Wallace Ford as Sam Grover, June Vincent as Edna Grover, Mark Roberts as Ray Belden, Frank Albertson as Lt. Hutton, Richard Hogan as Tom Grover, Elena Verdugo as Marilyn, Johnstone White as Huntington Stewart.

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Source: “Shed No Tears” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 5 September 2013. Web. 20 October 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_No_Tears.

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47 Replies to “Shed No Tears (1948) [Film Noir] [Crime] [Drama]”

  5. She contradicted herself at 13:00. First she said she didn't know about the policy and then she said that her husband had told her he was changing the beneficiary to herself.

  8. i prefer the book showing credits. But today, there are so many people required to make a movie, it would require 15 minutes and the book would be 30 pages long.

  11. My favorite quote from this lackluster script was when the police lieutenant, having never laid eyes on or heard a description of Mrs. Edna Grover, says before leaving his fellow cops at a crime scene to go meet with her, "I'm gonna have a talk with a blonde!" And the cinematography is just as bad.

  18. as my mom would say, "a real stinkeroo!" and she would know, she grew up watching these B movies. and I love them. thank you!

  22. They don't make movies like this anymore…Now it's all about violence, cursewords. computer graphics..You don't have to be a good actor anymore….

  32. Film noir seems to have such great acting, and so dramatic. Love it! But I also found this film convoluted and hard to grasp the ending. The PI had the best role I think. Quite the shyster!

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  39. Love that the 'heartbroken' icy bitch is wearing a lowcut 'mourning' (black) dress with the white trim accentuating the low cut.. .I like that the diner where the son went with his girlfriend had those individual jukebox things at the tables, you sure don't see those anymore

  43. I'm still going to love it I'm sure These old movies are best They stand on their own They also make you think I wasn't around but it seems we were a more literate society The lost art of conversation

  45. What a gem, I have listened to it several times and watched it twice. It runs itself, a formula with character actors that are dead on. Thanks for uploading.

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