''Strange Triangle'' is a 1946 American

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directed by

Ray McCarey Raymond Benedict McCarey (September 6, 1904 – December 1, 1948) was an American film director, brother of director Leo McCarey. Biography McCarey began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laure ...

and starring

Signe Hasso Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso ( Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress. Early life Hasso was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm in 1915. Her father and grandfather died when she was four, and her mother, gran ...

Preston Foster Preston Stratton Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970), was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. He also had a career as a vocalist. Early life Born in Ocean City, New Jerse ...

and Anabel Shaw..

Plot

A bank examiner becomes involved with a couple planning embezzlement, which leads them to murder.

Cast

as Francine Huber Mathews *

as Sam Crane * Anabel Shaw as Betty Wilson *

Shepperd Strudwick Shepperd Strudwick (September 22, 1907 – January 15, 1983) was an American actor of film, television, and stage. He was also billed as John Shepperd for some of his films and for his acting on stage in New York. Early years Strudwick was ...

as Earl Huber a.k.a. Mathews *

Roy Roberts Roy Roberts (born Roy Barnes Jones; March 19, 1906 – May 28, 1975) was an American character actor. Over his more than 40-year career, he appeared in more than nine hundred productions on stage and screen. Life and career Born in Tamp ...

as Harry Matthews *

Emory Parnell Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. Early years Parnell was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He spent eight months in the Arct ...

as Barney Shaefer * Nancy Evans as Hilda Shaefer

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* * * * 1946 films 1940s crime thriller films American crime thriller films American black-and-white films Film noir Films directed by Ray McCarey Films scored by David Buttolph 20th Century Fox films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language crime thriller films {{crime-thriller-film-stub