the story begin on a windy night in los angeles . cheryl draper get up from bed to close her bedroom window and and lo and behold and she look across the street at an apartment face hers and only to see a man strangle a woman . she call to notify what she have witness and little do she know she be deal with a cunning man and albert richter and who will make her life miserable . this 1954 film be clearly a vehicle for an age barbara stanwyck and even though the woman in the story must have be in her twenty . there be thing that do not make much sense and hole in the plot and but director roy rowland and his writer and charles erskine and do what they could with a plot that go nowhere and thing be not properly explain . nunnally johnson cooperate with the screen treatment and but he get no credit for it . we decide not to fight it and go along with this implausible story that show why barbara stanwyck be one of the best in the business . the suave george sander play the evil man that be try to frame cheryl by any mean . mr. sander be not at his best though and even a the man who always a step ahead of our heroine . gary merrill be not totally convince a the police detective larry matthew attract to cheryl . jesse white play his partner . the camera work of john alton and the editing of robert swink make the film even well than it should have be under another team . best sequence be the chase through the building under construction .