- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Release: 1949-12-19
- Director: John Berry
- Writers: Allen Rivkin , John D. Klorer
- Language: English
- Stars: Richard Basehart , Audrey Totter , Cyd Charisse , Barry Sullivan , Lloyd Gough , Tom D’Andrea , William Conrad , Tito Renaldo , Ray Bennett , Virginia Brissac
- Runtime: 95 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: O agnostos eihe diplo allothi (Greece) , Tension , Tension (France, French Republic) , Tension (Canada) , Spenning til bristepunktet (Norway) , Satimessa (Finland) , Zum Zerreißen gespannt (Germany) , Tension (Belgium) , Напряженность , Spänning (Sweden) , Tensão (Brazil) , Tensione (Italy) , Tensión (Mexico) , Spanning (Belgium) , Tension (United Kingdom) , Tensiune (Romania) , Tension (United States of America)
- Plot: A mousy drugstore manager contemplates murder after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend. Things take an unexpected turn after someone else commits the murder, and he becomes the prime suspect.
- IMDB:tt0041954
Tension Cast · · · ALL
John Berry
Director
Richard Basehart
Warren Quimby
Audrey Totter
Claire Quimby
Cyd Charisse
Mary Chanler
Barry Sullivan
Lt. Collier Bonnabel
Lloyd Gough
Barney Deager
Tom D’Andrea
Freddie, Coast to Coast Counter Man
William Conrad
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
Tito Renaldo
Narco, Deager's Valet
Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Peter Brocco
Balew (uncredited)
John Indrisano
Boxer Handler (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
Police Lt. Schiavone (uncredited)