the two mrs. carroll be a fine example of a film that could have be well . there be a number of very good element in this film and but they serve only to highlight the enormous potential that it have and unfortunately do not quite live up to . it begin a an odd little thriller and with bogart subdue and quiet nature make sinister by some frankly stifle atmospheric music . at first it almost seem a though the film follow a non linear narrative while we find out later that this be not the case . what it be and however and be a complex and twist little tale that gradually unravel itself until the climax . one problem be that there be an enormous amount of subtlety employ in it unravelling . in fact i would say there be a little too much subtlety and to the point where the detail that be suppose to be underplay to maximise the mystery and suspense do not seem to be underplay at all and but rather they appear to have simply be ommitted . it the same a watch a very badly edit film and where all of a sudden we jump to the next sequence in the story and without any explanation of why and or what have go on in between . the difference be that in this case and the intermittent gap be in the story rather than the action . the second little problem be with bogart character . he the centre of this story and a mentally disturbed and jealous painter who and it would appear and murder his first wife ( the first mrs. carroll ) in order to marry the second and play very well by the beautiful barbara stanwyck . but be not really give any insight into his character until very late in the film . at first he appear to be just like your stereotypical artist while insular and unpleasant and cynical . but we know and or at least assume and that he have actual psychotic tendency underneath that eccentric and but nonetheless ordinary exterior . we do not really see them though until the final twenty minute of the film and and bogart doesn not really get a chance to act until that point either . what this make for be a thrilling and genuinely frightening conclusion to the film and but a rather dull experience for the rest of the time . that say and this film be worth see if only for that last twenty minute . it very interesting to see bogart do insane and a it be to see stanwyck do helpless damsel and after her stirling work a femme fatale in wilder double indemnity . and and a with so many good conclusion and it wouldn not actually work without the precede 80 minute . so all in all it be a film worth see . while there be occasional flaw which stop it from be good and they be definitely and although not overwhelmingly and outstrip by the positive element of this exciting film noir . or .