They Won't Believe Me (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947), DVD

Robert Young stars in They Won't Believe Me, an absorbing film noir melodrama. The original RKO publicity tells the story: When a man goes to the devil he usually takes a woman with him this man took THREE! Young plays a dirty rotten scoundrel who sponges off his wealthy wife (Rita Johnson), seduces and abandons another woman (Jane Greer) and runs off with a third (Susan Hayward). Returning home, Young plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leaves him battling for his life. The role of faithless cad was a startling change of pace for Young, and he pulls it off brilliantly. Irving Pichel directed Jonathan Latimer's uncompromising script.