Though he handled a tricky "lead" role well in WITHOUT WARNING!, Adam Williams was not going to graduate into more conventional lead roles, but he managed to carve out a nice little noir filmography before moving over into television--
Without Warning! (1952); The Big Heat (1953); Vice Squad (1953); Crashout (1955); The Garment Jungle (1957)
--but we can see in NORTH BY NORTHWEST two years later that he's been typecast for the movies in a way that will consign him to TV for the rest of his career: he's simply not extreme enough to become a top-line villain (as comparing him to James Mason and Martin Landau will quickly make clear).
All of which makes it of some importance that somebody revive WITHOUT WARNING! in a theatrical setting to show how a certain kind of film grew out of film noir's ability to absorb many different elements into its use of character types and story variants. And also to give a marginal guy like Williams a chance to be seen and appreciated...
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