Crack-Up

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller’s introduction and comments following Crack-Up, 1946.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Crack-Up, 1946.

Art critic and anti-snobbery crusader Steele (Pat O'Brien) coming-to thinking he's been in a train wreck, cop Cochrane (Wallace Ford) confirming otherwise, Terry (Claire Trevor) and Traybin (Herbert Marshall) introduced, in Crack-Up, 1946.

Opening sequence in which crazed Steele (Pat O'Brien) busts into the museum and tangles with a statue, a cop (Edward Gargan) and, indirectly, the chairman (Erskine Sanford), in Crack-Up, directed by Irving Reis.

Returning home after apparently losing his mind at the museum, military vet and art critic Steele (Pat O'Brien) with girl-friend Terry (Claire Trevor) and new Brit pal Traybin (Herbert Marshall), in Crack-Up, 1946.

Having been inexplicably found in a restaurant, learning that his mother's sick upstate, Steele (Pat O'Brien) hops a train at Grand Central, inside the first flashback, in Crack-Up, 1946, directed by Irving Reis.

An art critic (Pat O'Brien) risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.