Crack-Up (1946) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
An art critic and lecturer who experiences a dissociative episode after a traumatic event. He investigates a series of art thefts and forgeries, uncovering a conspiracy involving museum officials and...
An art magazine writer and George Steele's girlfriend. She supports him during his investigation, helps him evade capture, and is briefly kidnapped alongside him by the criminal mastermind before bein...
A British art expert and authenticator who secretly operates as an undercover Scotland Yard inspector. He investigates an art forgery ring, assists Steele in his investigation, and ultimately rescues...
A museum board member and the mastermind behind a network of art thefts and forgeries. He manipulates events using narcosynthesis to induce hallucinations in Steele and is ultimately shot dead by poli...
Barton's secretary who aids Steele's investigation but is forced to betray him by knocking him out and holding Terry at gunpoint. She later cooperates with the police to reveal the location of hidden...
The museum director who clashes with Steele over his lecture style and initially covers up the art crimes to avoid scandal. He is eventually coerced into admitting the forgery and is left behind as St...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Lowell uses narcosynthesis to make Steele believe he experienced a train wreck and later questions him under the same drug.
Barton reprimands Steele for his sensational lecture style, denies him access to X-ray equipment, and later suspends him.
The plot identifies Terry Cordell as Steele's girlfriend, and they share drinks before he receives the false hospital call.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Mary cooperates with Traybin to avoid being charged and shows him where Lowell hid the stolen artworks.
Mary brandishes a gun on Terry after Steele is knocked unconscious.
Mary arranges for Steele to X-ray the Dürer copy, helping him verify the painting's forgery.
Lowell takes Terry captive alongside Steele and intends to kill both of them after interrogating Steele.
Traybin is secretly an undercover Scotland Yard inspector investigating the suspicious Gainsborough loss, while Lowell is revealed as the mastermind b...
Traybin wants Steele freed, later follows the investigation, and arrives with the police to help rescue Steele and Terry.
An art critic investigates an apparently impossible train disaster and exposes a forgery conspiracy built on psychological manipulation.
Directed by Irving Reis
Crack-Up (1946) · 5.8/10 · mystery, thriller
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