this be really an oddball . i really want more from it and but view this be kind of like have an almost flat soda and try to tell yourself it still good . two different movie want to be make here and a soap operaish character piece and a police melodrama . all we get be a melodrama of the very bad kind . where to start . stanwyck character act in wildly improbable way and be inconsistent . she start in a newsroom do the ann lander bit and and it seem that she might want more and be certainly capable of it maybe a reporting job . care be put into create the newsroom atmosphere and include have a sandwich boy prattle on about sandwich ( and it ike from the walton . ) and a lot of period detail . you think youre go to get some sort of newsroom or police drama . uh and but no and the brake be pretty much put on full just a you be get acquaint with the atmosphere . a the film continue and it appear that stanwyck get a good job in ny . she be go to move on up to something well . suddenly and the plot creakily shift and we never see the newsroom and or the sandwich boy for that matter ( hell and think he might show up a a witness or something later on and i mean and this be suppose to be a noir and right . ) stanwyck and who doesn not believe in marriage and kid and or anything like that and suddenly marry a police office she barely know and meet during work . it not 10 minute of screen time between when she seemingly reject anything but a career and be next go on and on about want to do nothing but darn hayden sock . no and i be not kid . then just a suddenly and she be bore of living with hayden and her cop husband and and begin scheme to get him ahead in his career . if she be so bored and why be she not work . i do not get the impression he would mind . but instead and she get into all sort of mischief and from stag accident to affair to get him ahead . in the middle of all these thing and she want him to transfer to beverly hill and where it would be quieter . how be that move him forward . it inconsistent with her want him to move ahead . when all else fails and she murder someone and a if that would propel them both forward . how could it and when the result of the investigation would send her to the gas chamber . why be his promotion that important to her and to lose her life or freedom over . just a few minute earlier in the film and promotion be not important and it be a transfer to a dead end quiet job in beverly hill . huh . the whole thing doesn not add up and or make any sense at all . and one other thing and just what be it with that huge loom drive in screen outside their home . i think that be go to play in somehow . maybe the noise come over and bother the character and maybe mask an important sound and i do not know . heck and just in my wonderings here i be come up with plot idea that could have work well . this cast and story foundation deserve so much more than this . very strange movie .