gibblegabbler This is a great film. Anyone who likes the film-noir genre should definitely make sure to catch this one. Great performances and a really nice story.

DKosty123 This RKO Film Noir stands above a lot of the studios films in the late 1940's. There are lots of good folks in the cast. Even some of the unaccredited extras are known from other films. I thought I actually spotted an unaccredited Frank Cady (Hooterville Store Keeper Sam Drucker) in the Jury at the end of the film. Could just be another bald guy.Robert Young carries the film and the story is done flashback style from his court trial for murder. The writing is good as this writer who wrote the story could write as he also wrote the story for the Hitchcock classic - "Shadow Of A Doubt". The screen writer who adapted his story would later do some of the better scripts for TV's Perry Mason. This quality of writers shows up in the film script.I like the way the story is handled here because there are times flashback gets confusing. This one does not and the ending is really worth sticking around for. I watched the black and white version of this on TCM. RKO did this as a "B"film quite obviously by the length of the feature.This film is a feast for people who like a good noir and in a way Robert Young here is the father who knows best.

Leofwine_draca THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME is an inventive, interestingly-played-out narrative involving a womanising husband who finds himself implicated in various murders. His story is told in flashback via his testimony in the courtroom, giving the viewer the opportunity to act as the jury and work out whether he's indeed guilty or not.Some of the story feels gimmicky but in this case the gimmicks work, leaving this a fresh-feeling tale whose outcome you can never predict. It's also a film-noir with a difference, in that the characters aren't all as adulterous, blackmailing and dastardly as in most films of this genre; many, in fact, are relatively decent.Robert Young makes for an engaging hero and the various love interests of the tale are all as attractive as you'd expect for a movie of this era. It's not exactly a story that will set the world on fire, but as a watchable film THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME works well enough.

MikeMagi "They Won't Believe Me" is a noir tale that cries out for Robert Mitchum or Dan Duryea, someone who can play an irresistible heel. Instead, you get Robert Young trying to doff his Mr. Nice Guy image. But why Susan Hayward and Jane Greer are so smitten with him remains a mystery. The chemistry just isn't there. Hayward, on the other hand, strikes sparks as a gold-digger with a heart of her favorite metal. Her slightest gestures, just the trace of a smile, everything about her is sexually provocative. The story itself is entertaining. Stockbroker Young keeps trying to extricate himself from rich, demanding wife Rita Johnson but she holds the purse strings and he doesn't want to lose his deluxe lifestyle. Then a fortuitous accident seemingly solves his marital problems -- until he's charged with murder. Well worth watching but I still don't believe Marcus Welby as a seductive scoundrel.