When things start going south in noir, they've already gone from bad to worse. One of two borderline films Robert Mitchum would make with John Farrow, Where Danger Lives has Mitchum's Dr. Cameron falling crazily for his pouting patient Margo (played by Faith Domergue, the Howard Hughes protégée in her starring debut). Unbeknownst to the bewitched MD, Margo is an early “angel face,” a loony lovely. After a scuffle with Margo's husband (Claude Rains), the bruised physician, along with his shock-proof siren, makes a run for the border town of Nogales. Speeding along a stretch of bleak back roads, the de facto fugitive becomes more and more addled as he succumbs to a concussion. Director Farrow uses this disorientation to blur the distinctions between hallucination and psychosis, the one being clobbered Cameron's, the other being maniacal Margo's. With road signs counting off the desperate miles, Nogales and freedom grow ever closer. But for this damaged duo, what you declare at the border may be your sanity.