The October Man / Sleep, My Love

THE OCTOBER MAN, 1947, MGM Repertory, 98 min. Roy Ward Baker's suspenseful directorial debut. Accident victim John Mills, released from the hospital, still has blackouts. Returning to work, he moves into a weird old rooming house. When a young girl (Kay Walsh) Mills knows is strangled, he becomes the prime suspect.

SLEEP, MY LOVE, 1948, 97 min. Dir. Douglas Sirk. Claudette Colbert awakens on a train unaware of how she got there, and a menacing psychiatrist is stalking her. Enter family friend Robert Cummings who falls for her, despite sinister hubby Don Ameche. With Hazel Brooks as a hilariously mercenary femme fatale. A rococo guilty pleasure that is a virtual spoof of the wife-driven-crazy subgenre.