The beautiful Patricia Morison made a name for herself on Broadway as the original diva of "Kiss Me Kate". However, on film, her dark features typecast her as dark ladies, and here, she rivals Gale Sondergaard for queen of that title as the estranged wife of scientist Don Porter, one of the founders of the A-bomb. Now working in private and falling in love with his secretary, Brenda Joyce, Porter is Disturbed when Morrison shows up out of nowhere and demands to be taken back. She seems to have nefarious motives, but as a blackmail victim of the sinister Milburn Stone,, Morison takes matters into her own hands. This results in murder,, revealing the truth in a way that leaves the audience with more questions than answers.
This had the potential to be a decent above-average programmer, but thanks to a weak script that is never fully explained in an hour long running time, the audience will leave trying to outguess the writers to figure out unexplained details. Morison is terrific, making her character very cats like and mysterious. She tries to make things work through a lot of acting with her eyes, but unfortunately the week ending doesn't really give her a chance 2 pull it all together. Porter and Joyce are bland as the leading romantic couple, but Samuel S. Hinds and Esther Howard do give good supporting performances, and Stone is a good villain. Add an hour-long running time, this is not a Time waster, but it will be easy to see how this has the potential to be so much better then it ended up being.
This had the potential to be a decent above-average programmer, but thanks to a weak script that is never fully explained in an hour long running time, the audience will leave trying to outguess the writers to figure out unexplained details. Morison is terrific, making her character very cats like and mysterious. She tries to make things work through a lot of acting with her eyes, but unfortunately the week ending doesn't really give her a chance 2 pull it all together. Porter and Joyce are bland as the leading romantic couple, but Samuel S. Hinds and Esther Howard do give good supporting performances, and Stone is a good villain. Add an hour-long running time, this is not a Time waster, but it will be easy to see how this has the potential to be so much better then it ended up being.