The Prowler

Genre: film noir

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Joseph Losey

Credits: Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes

Description: Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is called to investigate a voyeur by Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes) Her husband works nights as an overnight radio personality. Webb finds out about an insurance policy on the husband's life. He dreams up a scheme in which a phantom "prowler" would be a good scapegoat if Susan's husband should happen to die mysteriously. After becoming a prowler himself, Webb "investigates" and then commits the murder, making it look like a tragic accident in which he and the husband shot at each other.

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