Cause for Alarm! (1951) LORETTA YOUNG

Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
Director: Tay Garnett
A neurotic husband believes his luscious wife is having a steamy affair with the family physician and plots to frame her for his own murder!

[@suehofkamp8594]

PizzaFlix thanks for this great movie. Your channel is helping me keep my sanity during this COVID19 pandemic! You have the best movies!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Sue Hofkamp Thanks for the kind words.

[@christyalo5244]

Me too!! I love the escape to a tech free existence. Good old days...

[@mariacarter6954]

Same here in 2021.

[@marynace6294]

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[@zorpia621]

Not your typical storyline for a 1951 movie. Great acting and suspense right up to the last minute!

[@ethos1236]

Thank you for the upload. Wonderful movie with an edge-of-the-seat ending. Who doesn't love the exquisite Loretta Young?

[@TheTeteglez]

I really liked this movie. The suspense was so hard that one can only appreciate the impecable acting of Loretta Young. In that extenuaded ending, she seemed so alive. Thank you for this wonderful piece of acting.

[@darleneharris5157]

I love 💕 these old black and white movies!! Better than some of the movies today!! Loretta Young is beautiful!!

[@dianal.clausen8118]

My gosh, I forgot, or never appreciated, what a great actress Loretta Young is. Fabulous. I was nervous and could feel the heat of that day during the entire movie. Thank you Pizza Fix. You do an outstanding job. Diana, Chicago

[@patrickryan1515]

You can find episodes from the Loretta Young Show here on KZbin in which she displays great versatility in playing a wide array of characters from one episode to the next. This will serve to underscore your observation herein. My first discovery of Loretta's great talent, however, was through this film. The intensity of her emotional state throughout is difficult to shake even after the film has ended. Beauty plus brains is always a winning combination. Women like this need never hide behind snowflake feminism. When you've got it, you've got it; Loretta Young definitely had it. 6/2020

[@jenn6194]

Nothing I’ve seen in recently produced movies could have had me sitting on the edge of my seat the way this movie did! The “alarm” was palpable...the suspense agonising!

[@autumn5852]

Jenn 😫😩😭 agonising 😭

[@amycarmichael2748]

Loretta Young was a great actress. I love old movies!!

[@marynace6294]

Loretta Young was so beautiful and talented her movies are classic as great a actress keep showing these great classics 😀🤘🤎❣

[@peggyhill7283]

The country singer Loretta Lynn was named after Loretta Young. It's said Ms. Young was Mrs. Webb's favorite actress, (Mrs. Webb is Loretta Lynn 's Mother) 💖💖💖 Godspeed to you, Ms. Young. You helped make movies great!!!

[@renettayorka6883]

Now that's when movies were great. Thanks for sharing something worthwhile to watch.

[@loissandoval7376]

Renetta Yorka I AGREE WITH YOU WHOLE HEARTEDLY. PLEASE ENJOY YOUR DAY WATCHING THESE GREAT OLD MOVIE'S. I AM 😊.

[@monaattianese9838]

The things we remember .i was born in 54 but I do recall what you describe....these films are a terrific vehicle to take us back....God bless you ..in Jesus name😇❤️🙏🏼✝️✡️☮️

[@Catssandra13]

This is a great film, Loretta Young was such a classy actress and so lovely. Thanks for uploading this.

[@jeccawillow3635]

A wonderful performance from the lovely Loretta Young. Great film, thank you for sharing.

[@patriciahaskins1956]

**EXCELLENT** I absolutely love Loretta Young, I've seen every one of her tv shows available, and many of her movies. Now I can add this one. Really great story, well acted by all. So exciting, it had me going right up till the last minute! And of course it was produced by her husband (at the time). Thanks so much for an afternoon thriller! 🌈🌈🌈

[@genemaurillo4162]

What a wonderful actress Loretta Young was and such a great film. Amazed I never saw this until tonight.

[@kathyjensen1427]

My mother really liked her show! I was just a kid at the time.

[@ALITISA78]

This sorta thing happened alot after the war. So sad. Many returning soldiers had started to lose their minds.

[@shawnchristopherwhite3271]

I've never seen a more suspenseful movie!

[@judypaulsel9646]

Loretta Young what a genuine beauty

[@raymondgoddard4669]

at 17:05 the little boy in the cowboy suite reminds me when i was 11 in 1951 i entered a contest to win the identical hoppalong cassidy suit he is wearing. my closest friend won. brings back memories.

[@ahmadalqaira]

Art Goddard L

[@jenn6194]

Art Goddard , bless you. I wasn’t born until 1954, so this was a little before my time, but I remember the era.

[@shananalexander9789]

Art Goddard I love those kind of memories. I am glad you have that memory 💖

[@shananalexander9789]

Seriously Mr mailman. Give her the damn letter!!!!!!!!

[@mattdeans9873]

WOW what a movie. Thanks for a great post.

[@lovelylynnakamsunstoppable8564]

I Simply Love These Old Movies

[@voyaristika5673]

Great movie. They don't make them like that anymore! Thanks, PizzaFlix!

[@TheKonga88]

Such terrible heat but nobody is sweating , even after all that running 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💃🏻💃🏻🤡

[@autumn5852]

WoW great film ~ it had me totally on the edge of my seat all the way through

[@ramakrishnaiahchalla5177]

I have watched it several times and it is truly a great movie.

[@shananalexander9789]

Why? Why does a man that has a wife that adores him and lives for him have to be that way? Then there are women that ‘are’ like that; who cheats on him and he believes she is wonderful? Can’t life just ever be right between 2 people? Thank you for the upload 💖

[@marynace6294]

A great actresses and a wonderful beauty ❤

[@louisescanlon7478]

Pizza Flix thank you so much for this Brillant Movie. Such Acting. Gripping right to the end. Such an Evil Husband. Thanks Again. 🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘

[@victoriataylor5457]

Loretta Young was so very pretty, very nice lady also. They all looked great on that beach, so very long ago, sad to think they are all gone now. That was when Hollywood was still a little decent Good movie Thanks once again Pizza Fix, keep them coming, enjoy them all. Love the little boy, so adorable. Who was he?

[@WorkshopPops]

wow so many educated commenters on this thread,I had to look up many words up but I'm very glad to read educated thought out comments.

[@marjorieschultz5735]

@alison webster you have been brainwashed.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Decent? What do you mean by that? People are people. Six of one, half a dozen of another. Certain indecent things simply weren’t discussed or publicized back then. No Page Six or Entertainment Tonight. Standards. Fact: Loretta Young had a child out of wedlock, Clark Gable’s child. Raised her singly, did pretty well because she had the means to do so, but kept the secret until the child and Gable figured it out. Imagine the heartbreak. The girl looked exactly like her handsome charismatic father. People knew. So. People are just people, none perfect and everyone of us - even the beautiful and talented - makes mistakes, and ultimately we pay for them. To her credit she dealt with the consequences out of the public eye. It never hurt her career and she tried to represent something better than her own personal life onscreen, something ideal. No need to glorify a fantasy! Just enjoy the narratives for what they were and still are. Fiction not fact; Actors but no different than your neighbors for better or worse. Instead of ranking people try this: “Love thy neighbor AS thyself.” 🤐

[@madelinetramantano8302]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT. NOTHING LIKE THESE OLD MOVIES.

[@sharksport01]

Clark Gable should have married Loretta, so she didn't have to raise that baby alone.

[@lindapesnell5723]

❤️Thank You❤️

[@robinsandorf6075]

well done movie - but hard to watch because it was so plausible and so wrenching

[@cathychase663]

happens all the time - we have a president like that who gaslights like that

[@Ace1King1]

@@cathychase663 Let's Go Brandon.

[@robertwiegman1]

Saw this the first time when I was going 5o USC film school in mid 90s. It was shown in a class on film noir movies :)

[@greerchase9443]

Does she remind anyone else of Joan Crawford on some level?? I'm a big fan of both women 😍

[@munhl]

She reminded me of Joan Collins.

[@kathyjensen1427]

In that Joan Crawford was also a good actress. Drama! 😧😬

[@ixamxmsright]

Great story! Great acting. Ms.Right🌷

[@christinav.lhlimpuii706]

Just snatch the letter and run!!!😁

[@autumn5852]

Hope's Aunt oh noooo 🤦🏽‍♀️ I know what you mean now - snatch it and run god damn it 😭

[@TheKonga88]

But she knew that she would be changed into a ventriloquist dummy if she did that..🤡👈💃🏻

[@tracytovey9471]

I love love this movie. Thank you for sharing 😀💞

[@brendamiller8140]

Thank You so much for another great of of hers. At least this one I didn't cry all the way though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💙💚❤️🤗

[@madelinetramantano8302]

LOOK HOW MUCH THIS MAN CHANGED. NOT FOR THE BETTER.

[@MaliceInCandyland]

This is like a Twilight Zone episode.

[@mackb909]

Or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

[@LLStark]

YEAH! ALFRED HITCHCOCK MORE LIKE IT! 😂😂😂 GOOD THO!

[@lynnbrannan4578]

More like an Alfred Hitchcock episode!

[@britishmiller3665]

I don't know who was more annoying: the husband, the postman, the Aunt or the nosey neighbor..lol

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Here in Chicago the housewife character would rarely be bothered by nosy people; nobody wants to know you in this burg as most folks are hung up on themselves.

[@Lit123ful]

That’s all cities and some small towns too unfortunately.

[@sharksport01]

The wife was the most annoying!

[@marywhittaker572]

We can't say the postman was more annoying. After all, he saved the day by returning the feared letter to the wife.

[@marlesramos4953]

Amazing movie, I wish I was born during this time

[@britishmiller3665]

Marles Ramos - me too.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

I was; I'm 73.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Just like the 1950's; everything in those days was BY THE BOOK.

[@marywhittaker572]

Not once did we see the wife eat or drink anything. That's to reinforce the fact that she was on the go, very busy, cleaning, running the home, making the husband's lunch, nursing him, doing his messages, worrying about him.

[@veenapaulson5864]

Wow... Loretta sure had acting chops!! This was magnificent... When the Doc tells her that her husband's mind was affected by his disease? Many people go through this kind of mind Derangement horror story, with loved ones!!

[@diankreczmer6595]

I know it is just me. But I cannot help but realize the different style of acting that Loretta young uses. Hers is very dramatic and made to put the viewer in her place. I am thinking if this movie were made today, the acting would be far more nuanced with lots of camera on the actress'face letting us know her inner turmoil. Who am I to say, but it seems that when talking movies came out in the early thirties, there was a carryover from silent movies of overacting. More and more as movies were made later. Actors thought the emotion and you would surmise it in their face or behavior. I am eighty two so this movie takes me back to another time

[@sylviaroberts8103]

dian kreczmer Interesting comment. Also, I suppose the director plays a big part in bringing subtlety to the film and controls any over-acting.

[@kathyjensen1427]

Her acting was suberb! She played the character as it was written. What a performance! At the end especially when the postman handed her back the letter, she could finally let go! It was incredable and so very perfectly realistic! BRAVO!! 👏👏👏

[@fannylablanche9952]

Loretta YOUNG , belle toute sa vie ...

[@madelinetramantano8302]

WONDERFULL MOVIE GREAT ACTRESS.

[@MagorzataMaria]

I wonder who was more sick , the husband or the wife....my my my...

[@annemccarron2281]

One is as sick as the other, but it was not uncommon for women to be so passive back then. I've known many women of that generation who were doormats.

[@kathleenanderson1499]

What a self righteous B that husband is when all she is doing is loving him great movie thanks for sharing!!

[@annemccarron2281]

There are lots of men like that in real life & with the rise in narcissusm, they are everywhere.

[@aintnothingliketheoldskool]

​​@@annemccarron2281you women are narcissistic as well it's not just men y'all are everywhere as well.

[@whaleshrimp111]

My X wife was having an affair with 5 or 6 guys. She was trying to get them to plot my disappearance but before she could get them to act, they all dumped her and I was stuck with her for another year! Finally a civil servant without a life of his own ran off with her and I was free again!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Now that seems like an interesting premise for a movie 🍕

[@sharksport01]

7.

[@artisticwhistleblower1756]

I miss America, before it became Mexico.😢

[@shelleymcafee8197]

The same could be said in reverse. 💗

[@liveinms9949]

Love every movie Loretta young did

[@ralphquinteros7564]

I had one of those hoppalong cassidy suits when I was six & for many years I had a picture of me with guns drawn with my mom until it was thrown away by my stepfather after her death. It meant a lot to me but nothing to him since I know he threw it away out of spite.

[@marywhittaker572]

Don't worry! The main thing is you have the memory of that picture. You remember what you and your Mum looked like, how you were posing together, how you smiled. No one can take that away from you.

[@hun3344]

Husband major wacko.i would have gone loony right off the bat.

[@geneva50]

Nerve wracking.

[@LLStark]

😂😂😂😂 Wasn't it tho!!

[@witchingours4432]

At the very end, I wondered if George was right about one of them.

[@wmjahn]

No, in a 50ies TV-movie with Mrs. Honest (L. Young) there's no indication or double meaning of adultery or false play, but it'd have been cool, if the hubby actually would have been right in his assumptions. 👍

[@johnschlesinger2009]

The wife seemed as crazy as her husband. If she'd left things as they were, it would have been clear that he had died with the gun in his hand, and, despite the husband's letter, little suspicion would have arose - or have I missed something?!

[@seascape35]

I agree partly, but the husband was setting her up. I think the letter to the district attorney could have been very indicting, the pharmacist had reason to think she was giving her husband too much medicine, and one might say the husband was using the gun to defend himself, maybe she was forcing down lethal medicine, and he desperately was trying to stop her, even if a little crazy. And then had a heart attack. But yes, she should have told the truth right away; her actions brought suspicion upon herself.

[@sharksport01]

@@seascape35 An autopsy would have shown no excess drugs and his real cause of death.

[@taylorpresley8602]

This poor lady.

[@MikeKye200]

She did everything wrong; she should have just told the truth.

[@msara8230]

MikeKye200 that wouldn’t be so easy in the situation when you’re panicked. Not to mention make for an anticlimactic movie.

[@bobbazor]

Then the movie wouldn't have been worth a shit, plus we wouldn't have seen the beautiful and talented Loretta Young in her prime. Great movie even if she lied. The heyday of Hollywood. before nudity, cursing and downright filthy bullshit took over in the name of entertainment. . .phooey. . . .

[@BAMovin]

@@bobbazor Before cursing? This from someone who is cursing in his post.

[@wanboo02]

@@BAMovin-- come on...BULLSHIT is not cursing

[@nwmgnoe316]

@@bobbazor much like your comment.

[@p.g.j6323]

A real find.sent on to other friends. Great plot ThanksI

[@mileva998]

What an awesome movie!!

[@maureen348]

One of the best B movies I,ve seen

[@kengkeng3119]

loved it , great movie

[@heatherbowlan9822]

Very good old drama ,thank you .

[@micheleplouffe2343]

Ty pizzaflix!!! Excellent movie!!!!

[@WorkshopPops]

Lol. the postman was so funny he has one job to be postman and he complain he has to take mail. I always leave a ice water of cool drink for my post man or lady.

[@blessed2429]

Great cast!

[@arieswaters]

The movie called Give A Night to Remember. Best movie ever

[@elizabethkeenan7063]

I love my postman but if I had to deal with the one in this movie I’d get a box number 😂

[@eastcoastmomager7668]

I love all the Pizza 🍕 movies

[@cathychase663]

am I missing something? What do they do w/the body upstairs?

[@seascape35]

I would presume the doctor calls the coroner to report a death at home, and signs the death certificate. Since he has been seeing the patient regularly, and the patient has an established history of significant heart disease, (don't forget men dropped dead like flies in the 50's---so not an uncommon event), so I think the man gets buried with no particular suspicion. The only big evidence is the letter, which gets burned.

[@hookbeak3516]

Cause for Alarm! 1951 - This has all the ingredients for a Saturday Night matinee, suspense, atmosphere, intrigue, paranoia, mystery, special effects, fear, suburban tranquillity cloaked with film noir. This more than rivals an Alfred Hitchcock production: Strong performances, believable characters, Loretta Young as Ellen Jones couldn't be better cast as the tormented wife caring for her ailing husband. // Sat. 28th Aug. 2021.

[@glennjones6574]

Is your head bothering you??? "Both of them!"... Let me rub it for you ..... Lol

[@Shamimsie797]

it's a movie to remember, don't know who was more weird, the husband or the wife, if it was something as simple as that what on the earth was that man at the post office on about, it's a brilliant movie , one not to be missed, Hoppy was cute, lovely boy i loved the house & the beautiful area they lived in

[@madelinetramantano8302]

GREAT MOVIE KEPT YOU IN Suspense.

[@victoriamrose9645]

sooo great

[@madelinetramantano8302]

LOVED THIS MOVIE.

[@madelinetramantano8302]

THE MAILMAN WAS SO ANNOYING.

[@angelikaopland7880]

Great movie!!

[@teresas8173]

Acting was good, but the behavior of Loretta Young’s character so ridiculous that it ruined the movie tbh

[@rosabellelopez9115]

Awesome movie😘 thank you so much.

[@ourdrainageditchworlddogha3260]

Thanks for this wonderful movie.

[@timtran7756]

goodmovie

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

I hate almost all movies. However this was a good script and a good actress.

[@deborahgaffour2957]

Loved this film thanks

[@teresaareces4995]

Great movies 😀

[@yahslionessarisingwatchman2381]

They just don't make movies like this anymore!

[@thomasnorman9536]

Groceries were delivered in 1951

[@jennygibbons1258]

👍👏👏👏👏 Thanks

[@marylousepulveda2917]

WOW, this is a wow movie

[@marylousepulveda2917]

I was so exhausted, she looked so guilty. Oh Wow movie!!!!

[@northernlassie2755]

I'm so glad she is rid of the evil man....now get with the doctor and have a good life... who she should of stayed with in the first place 🙄

[@annemccarron2281]

I had one like him. Have been single 35 years now. Thank God!

[@ohwhatelse]

I remember her show on TV. I like her movies much better. She was so absolutely gorgeous when she was young. If you haven't seen The Bad Man & The Angel with her & John Wayne you ought to. I just couldn't believe how pretty she was in that.

[@PizzaFLIX]

The John Wayne film Angel and the Bad Man co-stars Gail Russell, not Loretta Young.

[@philipsparacino84]

This is a wonderful example of a movie in which, to enjoy it, you must not think. You must only feel and react. Then it is a neat little thriller. But, if you think....the movie is ridiculous, badly written and predictably acted. ----Wonderfully paced, though.

[@evetko]

Gee, that was good!

[@catholiccrusader5328]

This housewife was slow upstairs. She should have made a mad dash to the PO and took care of things when she got home after locking the door.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Locking her dead husband's door.

[@maunster3414]

If that letter was made of stone, she could have dropped it and claimed, oops butterfingers.

[@ozakiavari9055]

A very good film. But, I think a better title for it would've been: The Postman Always Rings Once

[@MaliceInCandyland]

Or The Postman Always Delivers Twice.

[@glendanewman9479]

Cause for alarm? Title didn't work for me either....more like Returned to Sender...however that would have given the ending away. Good movie.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

5:22 “Both of them” 😯

[@northernlassie2755]

I think he meant because he was hung over he had two heads...lol....but it could be taken the other way too but I doubt it in 1951.