gene tierney play the beautiful but troubled wife of a wealthy psychoanalyst while she suffer from kleptomania and seek help from a nefarious hypnotist and who use her for his own advantage . otto preminger direct drama and from a novel by guy endore and have a terminal case of blandness . the well coiffed picture be smartly design and but it be so starched and manicure that even the theme of blackmail and murder fail to cause much alarm . tierney and her prim face permanently set in a super serious freeze and have no character to play and fall back on external while a the villain and jose ferrer get off to a good start ( much like the picture ) but he quickly become monotonous . half from .