Lawrence Tierney kills a woman he's interested in but goes out with other men. His room mate, Elisha Cook Jr. Tells him to get out of town. Tierney takes the train to San Francisco. He meets Claire Trevor, back from Reno and set to marry Phillip Terry. It's clear Tierney and Miss Trevor yearn for each other, so Tierney marries her sister, Audrey Long. Meanwhile, sleazy Walter Slezak has been hired by Esther Howard to investigate the murder.
Tierney plays his usual psychopath, Cook his side boy, and the entire production reeks of various sorts of forbidden love. At times it approaches the comic, but everyone takes things so seriously that it comes out as compellingly bizarre. Perhaps this was why the audiences didn't cotton to it at the time, that and the large number of films noir available to them that year.
Tierney plays his usual psychopath, Cook his side boy, and the entire production reeks of various sorts of forbidden love. At times it approaches the comic, but everyone takes things so seriously that it comes out as compellingly bizarre. Perhaps this was why the audiences didn't cotton to it at the time, that and the large number of films noir available to them that year.