Cry Wolf (1947)

A recent widow (Barbara Stanwyck) visits her husband's (Richard Basehart) family for the first time and finds herself drawn to a man she knows she should fear: her husband's remote, controlling uncle (Errol Flynn). Meanwhile, there are screams in the night, a sudden death and a locked laboratory in a windswept mansion. Based on the novel by Marjorie Carleton and directed by Peter Godfrey (CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT). The one and only pairing of two screen icons, Stanwyck and Flynn, is a bit of a disappointment. No so much for the movie itself which is a moderately entertaining and competent piece of mystery (though when its "mystery" is revealed, it's a letdown) but because Stanwyck and especially Flynn are miscast. In an atypical role, Flynn is a rigid scientist and displays none of the swash of his adventure movies and tough cookie Stanwyck is hardly a damsel in distress. With Geraldine Brooks, Jerome Cowan and Patricia Barry.