Trailer
Plot summary
Walter Williams runs a San Francisco industrial empire and dotes on his young wife, Irene. When business takes him to Denver, she pleads illness and asks him to give a ride to a hitchhiker she calls her cousin, Jim Torrence, headed home to Evanston, Illinois. High in the Sierras, at a roadside pull-out, Torrence hits him with a lug wrench and rolls him down an embankment, then drives off in Walt's roadster and collides head-on with a gasoline tanker. Walt regains consciousness, crawls onto the tailgate of a moving van and slips out the next morning, when a newspaper reports him dead. He settles in Larkspur, Idaho, where Marsha Peters, a young war widow, runs the service station that hires him as a mechanic. In San Francisco, detective Quincy gathers evidence against Irene.
Cast
- Sheilah Grahamas Sheilah Graham
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Impact (1949)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Anna May Wong's part in Impact was her first screen appearance since 1942, and the second-to-last of her career.
- To save money, virtually the entire film was shot on location, with the real town of Larkspur, California standing in for the fictional Larkspur, Idaho. The Williams' Nob Hill penthouse was filmed at the Brocklebank Apartments at 1000 Mason Street in San Francisco.
- In the 1940s brand-name products were still uncommon in films and product placement was not yet lucrative; the trade paper Harrison's Reports took a stand against it and flagged Impact's on-screen plugs for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, Raleigh cigarettes, Coca-Cola, Mission Orange soda pop, Mobil gasoline, Gruen watches and Rexall.
