After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Acting
Davis and Rains weaponize charm into something genuinely unsettling.
Score
Cello concerto composed for the film — Hollenius demands it, and gets it.
Production
Opulent sets that mock the characters' emotional poverty.
Director
Irving Rapper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The cello concerto was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; he recycled themes from his own rejected 1930s symphony.
This was Davis and Rains's fourth collaboration — their chemistry was so combustible that censors demanded script rewrites to reduce the 'suggestiveness' of their scenes.
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