The Duplicates (1952)

★★★★ · Another proof... · noirfan · 2009-08-07

...of the fact that special effects, exotic locations, and huge budgets are completely unnecesary to tell a riveting story. All you need is imagination, a terrific actor like Darren McGavin, and an ingenious, imaginative writer. Two cheap locations and a cosmologically weird and implausible but not utterly impossble premise --- and voila!