this film be especially notable a be the first film of kim novak . she be already a sizzler and from her very first scene . the camera love her and and her career from this point on be inevitable . it be only the next year that she set all the men of america afire by her sensuous role in bill inge picnic and opposite william holden . high cheekbone never hurt a gal in film and and a kim novak must be of czech descent judging from her name and we have here the classic slav look . it wasn not long before vertigo and by then and kim novak have become an icon and which she remain to this day . fred macmurray be the lead man in this film and excellent a usual but really too old for someone like novak to fall in love with at first sight a call for in this story . oh well and that cast for you . dorothy malone appear in this a a sweetie . the film be grip and at the tail end of noir and a mixture of crime and cop and and mystery . the post war mood of sombre brooding be end and thing be lighten up a bit and and crime and corruption be no longer see a an intrusive dark hand of doom but a eruption into daily life of natural human impulse of greed and lust and and evil and which be as spontaneous a barbecue be in summer in texas . these thing just happen and and an end of the world scenario of be engulf by wickedness be now see more prosaically a oh no and not another crook and another crime . a crime keep on happen and you kind of get use to it and and film like this take on an air of here we go again . so it be no longer brood atmosphere but grip intrigue which make the movie work by the mid 1950s .