Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Leofwine_draca IMPACT is an almost forgotten film noir with a great set up: a guy's wife is cheating on him and colludes with her lover to have him killed. The location of the murder is a mountain top road, but as is usual with this genre of film-making, nothing goes according to plan. The first half an hour is a highly suspenseful journey into darkness, and the set-piece sequence on the mountain is superbly handled and keeps you guessing throughout as to what's going to happen.Sadly, the quality of the narrative takes a serious nose dive from this point in and never really recovers. Brian Donlevy, who's a bit too over the hill for this role, loses his identity and decides to go into hiding while the police investigate his wife. Sadly, the writers then see fit to shoehorn an unnecessary romance into the storyline, which really drags things down and evaporates all of the momentum so carefully built up early on. Things finish with a court case, but IMPACT never regains the highs of the early set up. Donlevy is okay, but his character is unsympathetic, and the supporting players are merely adequate in their parts.

BasicLogic the whole film suffered a sudden deterioration and death, and at the same time when his wife was escorted into the cops' room, the whole dialog became so stupid that had become unbearably ridiculous. 'on what charge?" asked by Williams was the exact groundless accusation. the screenplay simply became stupider and stupider. grand jury? give me a break. when Williams arrived larkspur, Idaho, the news reporting his death with his photos were on every newspapers, yet nobody seemed to recognize him, there were so many folks in that town holding newspapers yet no one noticed a stranger suddenly showed, this highly unlikely scenario only served the purpose for Williams to hook up with the wonderful widow who ran a gas station and car repair shop. before Williams back to s.f., the police already took his murdering wife into custody, but once he showed up, then the whole screenplay just turned into a stupid farce. what a waste of a good film that had the potential to be great, but then the stupidity simply turned beyond salvage.

wes-connors After scoring big points with his board of directors, wealthy San Francisco businessman Brian Donlevy (as Walter "Walt" Williams) plans a romantic vacation with his beautiful, well-dressed wife Helen Walker (as Irene). Unbeknownst to Mr. Donlevy, Ms. Walker has scored a big point of her own, low-life lover Tony Barrett (as James "Jim" Torrence). They've got deadly plans for Donlevy, but things don't always go according to plan. Donlevy finds female companionship with 25-year-old Mobile service station operator Ella Raines (as Marsha Peters) while "smart cookie" lieutenant Charles Coburn (as Tom Quincy) investigates...The Popkin brothers (Harry and Leo) were great at bringing suspenseful dramas to the screen; in this case, a story by Jay Dratler. This time they should have met with director Arthur Lubin to iron out some details in an otherwise fun film. We get several interesting twists and turns, but are almost derailed, due to some plot problems. There are a couple of implausible events worth mentioning. Just for starters, a character attempts to "murder" another by simply hitting him on the head; obviously, the "victim" was not dead. Also, a "victim" jumps into the back of a parked moving van instead of going up to the driver and asking for help...From the opening "board of directors" meeting to seeing Robert Warwick as a police captain, "Impact" employs several former "silent" screen players. That's not unusual, but there are a few in prominent roles. The chic maid is Anna May Wong, memorable as a sexy young Asian woman in 1920s melodramas. She participates in one of the better story sequences, a chase (photographed by Ernest Laszlo) from Jason Robards' courtroom to her apartment. The landlady who discovers Donlevy's secret is Mae Marsh, one of D.W. Griffith's most acclaimed actresses. Of the four top-billed stars, Walker gets the best out of her role.****** Impact (3/19/49) Arthur Lubin ~ Brian Donlevy, Helen Walker, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn

Roger Pettit "Impact" is the ideal sort of film for a wet Sunday afternoon. It is one of those many enjoyable, if largely unmemorable, crime dramas churned out by Hollywood studios in black and white in the pre-TV era. Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a self-made man. Having started life as a sheet-metal worker, he has worked his way up over a period of ten years to become a successful industrialist who has the board of directors of the company that employs him eating out of his hand. He adores his wife Irene (Helen Walker), whom he sometimes addresses as "Softy", and earns enough to keep her in fine style and to buy her expensive jewellery and flowers. However, unbeknown to Walter, his affection is not reciprocated. Irene has grown bored with him and is having an affair with Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett). The two of them hatch a plan to kill Walter in a staged car crash. But their scheme does not work out and Torrance is killed instead. Walter escapes to a small town known as Larkspur, gets a job as a garage mechanic and falls in love with the garage proprietor Marsha Peters (Ella Raines, whose role as a beautiful car mechanic stretches credulity almost to breaking point). At the same time he has begun gradually to piece together the details of his wife's duplicity. Things move on from there."Impact" is not intended to be a serious film. It is essentially a pot-boiler whose only purpose is to provide 90 minutes or so of entertainment. On that basis, it is reasonably successful. Yes, elements of the plot are frankly ridiculous and rely far too much on coincidence. The film looks technically prehistoric by today's standards in that many outdoor scenes are clearly filmed in a studio with an appropriate backdrop that, to modern viewers, will simply be unconvincing and amateurish. But that is perhaps an unfair criticism of a film that was made more than 60 years ago. The acting and the direction are competent enough, without standing out in any way. "Impact" is an enjoyable, if forgettable, film. 6/10.