In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Acting
Signe Hasso's smoldering manipulation carries every frame she graces.
Production
Micro-budget noir that squeezes maximum shadowy style from minimal resources.
Director
Ray McCarey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ray McCarey was Leo McCarey's younger brother and mostly directed shorts; this was one of his few features before his tragic death by suicide in 1948.
Released in 1946, this B-noir captures postwar anxiety about returning soldiers finding their wives changed—or their jobs taken.
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