I Wake Up Screaming (20th Century-Fox) is a showcase for the renowned torsos of bountiful Betty Grable and beautiful Victor Mature. A melodramiable mystery, well-directed, nicely acted, competently atmospherical, it is notable for a complete absence of gunplay and for a slick performance by enormous (290-lb). Laird Cregar, as the psychopathic head of a homicide squad.
The picture is concerned with the ultimate capture of a fiend who murders Miss Grable's sister (Carole Landis), a hash-house honey whom Mr. Mature, a lowbrow sports promoter, inadvertently promotes right out of his life to Hollywood....
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