an excellent period murder melodrama and with fontaine effectively play against her early naive wallflower type and in a role that reportedly olivia dehavilland turn down . that fine and because fontaine be wonderful . script by charles bennett and who have write for hitchcock in the thirty and also later pen the excellent script for the classic british horror film night of the demon . the opening scene and where ivy visit a sinister fortune teller play by the wonderful una oconnor ( the screecher of james whale fame ) and be a tour de force and and the film maintain interest throughout the numerous sinister machination . i hope to see this film on dvd someday and but despair of that ever happening and because it seem to be an undeservedly obscure film . fortunately i get to see it on amc some seven or eight year ago and but have not see since . catch it if you can .