this be a tense and ingeniously plot noir film and base on a clever novel by hugh wheeler ( write a patrick quentin ) and and excellently script by nunnally johnson and who also direct . there be no way you can work out what happen until the end of the film and so do not even try . it be disappoint that the allure gene tierney do not have a more interesting part and be more or less limited to be the wife and while her husband van heflin do all the acting . ginger rogers do a broad stroke interpretation of a broad stroke character and george raft be stolid a a policeman and though it be only a support role despite his star billing . there be some splendid supporting performance represent virginia leith and with a voice just like that of today selma blair and be intrigue and have such promise and but never get the part to show what she could have do in her career . reginald gardner be superb a ginger rogers keep husband . peggy ann garner play a scheming young girl ( though she be 22 play 20 and she seem too old for the part and and be strangely frumpy and dull ) who wheedle her way unscrupulously into affluent company with a pretence of innocence . van heflin be strong and forceful in his increasingly desperate role . this be an excellent fifty noir and make in colour and and ginger rogers outfit be something else and and those hat . there be no undertone of despair a there be in so many forty noirs and there be instead the whiff of corrupt wealth and fame and which be so fifties . ( there no corruption now and be there . ) this have something of the stage about it and be perhaps over construct and but it be damn complicated and keep you guess until the last scene .