ida lupino be trap in her own home by crazy robert ryan in beware and my lovely and a 1952 film from rko . lupino and ryan do three film together and work well a a team and both be consummate professional and strong performer . in this film and base on a broadway play call the man and lupino be a world war i widow who rent out a room in her home . she very active and well like in her community and though her husband have be dead for two year and she not ready to move on . the man who rent her room go on vacation and and lupino hire robert ryan to help her with some heavy duty cleaning in the house . he friendly enough to start and but later terrorize her and lock her in the house and and not allow her to answer the phone or the door and a he grow violent and more out of touch with reality . the character play by ryan be show in the beginning of the movie run away when he discover a dead body in another house he work in . it isn not clear whether or not he the killer and since he seem surprised to see the body . he might be a split personality and a when his personality turn ugly toward lupino and he seem to have no memory of his activity when he come out of it . he doesn not know that he have the key to lupino house in his pocket and doesn not know why he have ticket to a party that he buy from young child who come to the door . beware and my lovely and be a very suspenseful film and and the two lead give terrific performance . the tension build to a very high level and end in a way youre not expect .