misguide and miscast and murky and interminable lunacy give the high gloss mgm a budget treatment . kate hepburn play a bride who come to suspect her rich and handsome husband ( robert taylor ) be not the dreamboat she marry but a psychotic killer . mgm attempt at a hitchcockian thriller be doom from the start by a turgid and muddle and ludicrous script and and the idiotic casting of hepburn a a jeopardized woman fear for her life ( who could ever imagine hepburn afraid of anything . ) louis b. mayer forget to tell vincent minnelli he be direct a thriller and not a musical . taylor be embarrass . only robert mitchum and also cast against type a a good guy and retain his dignity in a quiet and low key performance . karl freund ravish cinematography creates image of eerie beauty and be waste on the wrong film . end result represent metro parnell of the 1940s .