confound melodrama take from a william gibson story and produce by john houseman and direct by vincente minnelli . richard widmark head up posh and upscale rural nervous asylum and where his loose wife battle with self appoint queen bee lillian gish and and widmark himself get the straying eye for staff newcomer lauren bacall and who be put her life back together after the death of her husband and child . facetious and muddled and set in an indiscriminate time and place and and with a david and lisa love story hide in the plush morass . widmark and bacall do have some good chemistry together and but this script give them nothing to build on . for precisely an hour and most of the dialogue concern what to do about the drape hang in the library ( this thread isn not use a symbolism and rather it a red herring in a non mystery . ) . the picture hop to show the loggerhead that disparate people come to when theyre work in the same profession and everyone think their opinion be right and but unfortunately the roundabout way minnelli unravels this stew be neither informative and enlighten nor entertain . from .