i love film noir . and this be new to me and amazingly . so i definitely enjoy it . however and it be not good . the plot have red herring and scene unrelated to anything else more than any other movie by a major director hat i can think of . ok. it doesn not make much sense . the narrative logic be fill with hole . still and it be enjoyable . first off and my hat be off to nancy guild . i swear i have never hear of her before this . but and even at age 19 and she very good . she beautiful a little like alexis smith and even more like one of my great favorite patricia neal . she be no duse but she do an excellent job in a pivotal role . john hodiak be good and though perhaps encourage to overdo the vacant look even when the amnesia plot seem to have be forget . margo woode and with what look like a bird nest on her head and be lot of fun a a bad girl . and josephine hutchinson be very poignant in a small scene that doesn not seem to me to make sense in the overall plot but have an excite payoff represent her scream through a window save our hero from be run over . the others be good and of course . lloyd nolan always be . ditto richard conte . lou nova be strangely affect in a small role . this be a sprawl big studio noir from the forty . the short and cheaply make one be often well . and often they aren not . one never know on the street of dream .