Both movies that Lupino directed this very years ("the hitch hiker" and the neglected "bigamist" ) are better than this movie which is intriguing , entertaining ,but a little disappointing .
There are shades of "Rebecca" and countless other Gothic thrillers; Lupino becomes a caretaker in a desirable mansion where she is alone and where she feels something is wrong. The gas station man had warned her ; and the girl who was there before her disappeared in a mysterious way : a baffling diary reveals strange things and this young woman might be a blackmailer :did someone do away with her?
Howard Duff ,her real life husband , tries his best to look threatening , ambiguous ,but it does not delude for long (they would reverse the roles in "women's prison " in which Lupino became the villainess and Duff the sympathetic doctor)
Another problem : Robert Nichols is supposed to play a nineteen -year-old student ,and he's 29 and it shows!
The ending is trite and mystifying at once.
There are shades of "Rebecca" and countless other Gothic thrillers; Lupino becomes a caretaker in a desirable mansion where she is alone and where she feels something is wrong. The gas station man had warned her ; and the girl who was there before her disappeared in a mysterious way : a baffling diary reveals strange things and this young woman might be a blackmailer :did someone do away with her?
Howard Duff ,her real life husband , tries his best to look threatening , ambiguous ,but it does not delude for long (they would reverse the roles in "women's prison " in which Lupino became the villainess and Duff the sympathetic doctor)
Another problem : Robert Nichols is supposed to play a nineteen -year-old student ,and he's 29 and it shows!
The ending is trite and mystifying at once.