Cry Wolf (1947 film)

Cry Wolf is a 1947 American mystery film noir directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck and Geraldine Brooks.

Caldwell's teenage niece Julie welcomes Sandra but claims that her uncle is holding her prisoner on the estate, that strange things are occurring in an area of the mansion that she is forbidden to enter and that the older family members and their servants may not be telling the truth about the recent death.

[10] Turney says Flynn realised he was playing support to Stanwyck but after reading the script felt it was "kind of an interesting character" and was persuaded to make the film.

"[9] Geraldine Brooks and Richard Basehart were both New York stage actors who had recently accepted contracts with Warner Bros.[12][13] Filming started in May 1946 and concluded in August.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "[A]ll of the dark and ominous doings in a good three-quarters of this film—all of the fearful things encountered by a presumed young widow in a big dark house, ruled over by an icy young scientist who maintains a forbidden laboratory in one wing—are just so much clear and calculated dust in the audience's eyes.

'"[16] The Wall Street Journal wrote that the film was "often as dull as it is frightening because its melodramatic story is full of cliches... without tommy gun or sword, Mr. Flynn seems unhappily wooden.

"[18] The Los Angeles Times called the film "murky" and "fairly opaque" although it felt that audiences "are likely to be impressed by the performance of Flynn.