In the long list of film noir femmes fatales there's a pantheon of actresses usually headed by Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck and Gloria Grahame. To this illustrious list I think you can credibly add the name of Elizabeth Montgomery even though it is based on only one performance in one episode of a television show. In the "Rusty Heller Story" she plays the eponymous sexy Southern firebrand as she schemes and revenges her way up the greasy pole in the world of the 1920's bootleg era gangsters. She can charm the pants off any male shmuck and even has straight-arrow Eliot Ness watching himself. Its a bravura performance and she dominates the screen.
Review of The Rusty Heller Story
