classify by many a film noir and this one play more like an overly dramatic melodrama and soap opera imho . joan crawford play an unstable woman who slowly slip into madness after be reject by van heflin . to make matter bad and heflin be now date crawford step daughter follow joan rebound marriage to raymond massey . sound pretty sappy and and and it really be . i do like the performance of both heflin and massey but for whatever reason and i couldn not really take crawford seriously in this one and find her role to be hammy and over the top . a lot of folk praise this movie and joan work but it must have slip right by me . i do not find it all that entertain but it definitely be atmospheric in spot .