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The Dark Mirror

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The Dark Mirror	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Dark Mirror is a 1946 Psychological Thriller directed by Robert Siodmak.The film opens with one Dr. Frank Peralta lying on the floor of his apartment, stabbed to death. Investigating officer Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell) soon finds multiple witnesses placing Peralta's girlfriend, Terry Collins (Olivia de Havilland) at the scene. Stevenson is confident that he has his woman—until Terry reveals that she has an ironclad alibi, as multiple witnesses saw her elsewhere that night.Only it isn't Terry! It's Terry's identical twin sister and roommate Ruth (also de Havilland, of course) who was seen by multiple witnesses at a concert and walking in the park. Or was it Terry? All the sisters will tell Stevenson is that one of them has an alibi, and the other was home alone. They refuse to say which one is which. A frustrated Stevenson realizes that without any way to show which sister was the one seen at Dr. Peralta's apartment, he can't arrest either of them.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })With no other option, Stevenson approaches Dr. Scott Elliot (Lew Ayres), another doctor in the same office building where Peralta practiced and where the sisters run a concession stand. Elliot is a psychiatrist who just happens to be conducting research on twins. Elliot recruits the Collins sisters for one of his twin studies. While finding out some dark things about Terry, Elliot starts to develop feelings for Ruth. Terry does not like this one bit.One of only two films in which Olivia de Havilland played a villain, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte being the other. The first film Lew Ayres made in four years, after he was fired from the Dr. Kildare series for supposedly refusing to serve in World War II—in fact Ayres had volunteered to serve in a non-combat role, and did serve as a front-line medic in the Philippines.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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The Dark Mirror / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Dark Mirror / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Dr. Elliot calls Terry a "paranoiac", but he does describe her as having no conscience and no sense of right or wrong.
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The Dark Mirror / int_347c2	type	Inkblot Test
The Dark Mirror / int_347c2	comment	Inkblot Test: One of the tests that Dr. Elliot runs on the twins. Terry's responses to the ink blots are just a little bit weirder.
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The Dark Mirror / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
The Dark Mirror / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: Ruth faints when Stevenson tells her that Dr. Peralta is dead.
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The Dark Mirror / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
The Dark Mirror / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Terry says "Who else have you told this to?" when Elliot reveals that he has figured out that she is insane and she killed Dr. Peralta. Soon after she is reaching for scissors to stab him In the Back with, but he turns just before she picks them up.
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The Dark Mirror / int_613fa807	type	Identical Twin ID Tag
The Dark Mirror / int_613fa807	comment	Identical Twin ID Tag: While the sisters often wear Coordinated Clothes, the clothes usually have a T or R monogram. And when they're not wearing the monogrammed outfits they're wearing necklaces that actually spell out "TERRY" or "RUTH".
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The Dark Mirror / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Dark Mirror / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: So, Dr. Peralta was courting Terry while actually preferring Ruth, only he didn't know they were twins...so what name did he call them? If he called the woman behind the counter "Terry" then at some point Ruth would have surely corrected him, and if he called her "Ruth" then Terry would have known right off the bat that Peralta was confused.
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The Dark Mirror / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
The Dark Mirror / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have You…: Why Terry killed Dr. Peralta and why she almost kills Elliot. She fell in love with both of them, only to figure out that each of them preferred Ruth.
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The Dark Mirror / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Dark Mirror / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Terry starts doing this to Ruth after becoming jealous of her and also becoming suspicious that Ruth will rat on her. She uses such tricks as turning the lights on quickly in the middle of the night and telling her now-awake sister she must be hallucinating, and hiding a music box in the house and leaving it on.
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The Dark Mirror / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Dark Mirror / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Just to make sure the audience knows Dr. Elliot is smart, he's shown fiddling with a chess board at home.
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The Dark Mirror / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
The Dark Mirror / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: The twins often wear matching outfits.
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The Dark Mirror / int_a09f3a65	type	Sibling Triangle
The Dark Mirror / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: Dr. Peralta was in one without knowing it. The sisters took turns manning the counter, and while Dr. Peralta wound up taking Terry out, he actually preferred Ruth. When Terry found this out, she killed him. Later, Terry takes a fancy to Dr. Elliot, only to be sent into another jealous fury when she sees him kissing Ruth.
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The Dark Mirror / int_c2847a44	type	Word Association Test
The Dark Mirror / int_c2847a44	comment	Word Association Test: Another of the tests that Dr. Peralta runs on the twins. It's a big dramatic moment when each of them associates "mirror" with "death".
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The Dark Mirror / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
The Dark Mirror / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: How do we know that Terry is the Evil Twin? Because she smokes, of course.
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The Dark Mirror / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Dark Mirror / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Sure does work out well that the guy with an office right next to the twins' concession stand is a specialist on identical twins.
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The Dark Mirror / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Dark Mirror / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Terry, who is marked out as being the Evil Twin by being a smoker, really smokes up a storm after she sees Ruth and Elliot kissing on the front steps.
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The Dark Mirror / int_e8b49369	type	Lie Detector
The Dark Mirror / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: Another test that Dr. Elliot runs on the twins. He observes that Terry's lie detector graph spikes crazily whenever he asks her a question about Ruth.
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The Dark Mirror / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
The Dark Mirror / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Terry, it turns out, is a sociopathic murderer, driven to fits of violence by her pathological jealousy of Ruth.
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The Dark Mirror / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
The Dark Mirror / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: The twins were in the habit of alternating shifts at the concession stand without anyone else being the wiser. At the end, after being told that Ruth has killed herself, Terry starts insisting that she is Ruth.
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The Dark Mirror	hasFeature	Evil Twin / int_60dcf4ec
The Dark Mirror	hasFeature	Film Noir Index / int_60dcf4ec
The Dark Mirror	hasFeature	Inkblot Test / int_60dcf4ec
The Dark Mirror	hasFeature	Psychological Thriller / int_60dcf4ec
The Dark Mirror	hasFeature	Word Association Test / int_60dcf4ec

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