About this episode
Before Humphrey Bogart played tortured writer Dix Steele on the big screen in In a Lonely Place , Robert Montgomery played the man with a deadly secret in an adaptation of the novel on Suspense . The actor and director of Lady in the Lake and Ride the Pink Horse is star, producer, and host of this sixty-minute version of Dorothy B. Hughes' novel (originally aired on CBS on March 6, 1948).