Jeopardy

Jeopardy

1953 | 1h 9m | Noir, Drama | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

When Doug Stilwin gets his leg trapped on an isolated beach during a vacation in Mexico, his wife Helen goes for help ... but she's kidnapped by an escaped convict. How far will she go to escape before the incoming tide takes her husband's life?

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

John Sturges

CAST

Barbara Stanwyck

Barry Sullivan

Ralph Meeker

Lee Aaker

Rico Alaniz

PRODUCERS

Sol Baer Fielding

WRITERS

Mel Dinelli

Maurice Zimm

Related Videos

03:29
Jeopardy (1953) -- (Movie Clip) A Very Pretty Piece Of You
Clip
American Helen (Barbara Stanwyck) is racing time, her husband pinned under a pier back at the coast with the tide rising, in an abandoned Mexican village until Ralph Meeker (character named "Lawson") turns up, in Jeopardy, 1953, directed by John Sturges.
03:38
Jeopardy (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Peligro
Clip
Settling in at the Mexican west coast spot below Ensenada where Bill (Barry Sullivan) used to fish with his army buddies, mom Helen (Barbara Stanwyck) also not keeping too close an eye on Bobby (Lee Aaker), in John Sturges' Jeopardy, 1953.
03:44
Jeopardy (1953) -- (Movie Clip) The Country Next Door
Clip
From the top, calm intonations from star Barbara Stanwyck, framing her family vacation with husband Doug (Barry Sullivan) and son Bobby (Lee Aaker), John Sturges directing, in the 1953 MGM sleeper hit, Jeopardy.

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