Crack-Up  (1946) 05/16/26

This noir tries something different: an art expert must play detective to find out why everybody thinks he’s gone insane. Who knew that the most dangerous noir creeps are to be found skulking around a museum gallery? Ex- Warner contractee Pat O’Brien tries out RKO for size, with a screenplay that goes in for arty dream montages, yet encourages us to laugh at modern artworks. Claire Trevor’s femme is hopefully not the fatale type, while Herbert Marshall may hold the key to O’Brien’s crazy hallucinations, tricked out by the RKO special effects department. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
05/16/26