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
Ida Lupino
Lily Stevens
Cornel Wilde
Pete Morgan
Celeste Holm
Susie Smith
Richard Widmark
Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
O.Z. Whitehead
Arthur
Robert Karnes
Mike
George Beranger
Lefty
Ian MacDonald
Police captain
Grandon Rhodes
Judge
Ray Teal
Policeman
Lee MacGregor
Man
Heinie Conklin
Man with Newspaper /Court Clerk (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper
Policeman at Road House (uncredited)
Robert Foulk
Policeman at Road House (uncredited)
Kathleen Hughes
Bar patron (uncredited)
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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