A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Acting
Widmark's unhinged jealousy is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Negulesco makes a bowling alley feel claustrophobic.
Writing
Lupino's character has actual agency—rare for '48.

Director
Jean Negulesco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ida Lupino was so dissatisfied with the script she rewrote many of her own scenes, uncredited.
This was Widmark's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated psycho in 'Kiss of Death,' cementing his type as cinema's most unsettling grin.
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