Gene Tierney’s character, Laura, is murdered, shot in the face by a shotgun. Everyone suspects her shady fiancee, Vincent Price, as he seems to be hiding something. Then Laura turns up alive, and everyone’s shocked (twist 1). The dead woman turns out to be a girl that Vincent Price was seeing on the side. Clifton Webb, Laura’s obsessed former boyfriend, shot her by mistake, trying to murder Laura (twist 2). Dana Anderson plays a child’s puzzle and a tough detective throughout.
Yeah, I thought of Laura too, but the “twist” comes in about the middle of the movie. The second “twist” is just your standard mystery resolution: in a good mystery–which Laura is–the killer should always be something of a surprise. So I don’t think it counts as an honest to god “twist,” which as I see it should suddenly re-frame the entire movie from a new perspective, like the examples in the OP.
The ending of* The Bad Seed* was imposed by the Hays Office, the Hollywood censorship authority. Hollywood buckled to Catholic activists in 1934 and agreed to end all movies with evildoers receiving punishment, even if it made no sense to the rest of the plot. So any adapted story without such a denouement had one tacked on by the censor. (This lasted until 1967.) So, more nitpicking here, I don’t think that really counts as what the OP is looking for.
Can’t remember the name of it, or most of the plot, but there was a B&W movie where at the end they revealed that the two characters (I think they were supposed to be brother and sister) were in fact the same person… voice over man warned you not to tell your friends cos they’d kill you :eek:
The Maze was an old B&W movie about a crowd of people staying in a old castle the twist being that the heir to the place (or whatever) is
