

Beware, My Lovely
Trapped by a man beyond control!
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
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- Language
- English
- psychopath
- film noir
- home invasion
- handyman
- trapped in a house
- schizophrenic
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- TheatricalNR29 Aug 1952
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Beware, My Lovely was released on 29 August 1952.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
9/15/2019
The Man, The Play & The Actor. We are in a small town, a homely widow (Ida Lupino) hires a handyman (Robert Ryan) to look after her house. She soon starts to regret it as Ryan grows erratic by the hour, it appears that she is host to a dangerous schizophrenic, and now she is unable to escape her house. Beware, My Lovely is adapted from Mel Dinelli's (The Spiral Staircase) story and play called "The Man". Pretty…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/9/2022
Robert Ryan is effectively menacing in this drama of a loner ("Wilton") who takes a job as a factotum at the home of the sympathetic, recently widowed "Helen" (Ida Lupino). He suffers from a paranoia that leads him to believe that everyone is against him - and given the suspicious-looking opening scenes of the movie, that includes the audience too. When she finds herself alone in the house with him, the doors and win…
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