Barney (Louis Heyward) and Sheila Page (Joan Leslie) have a rather tumultuous love-hate marriage brought on by Barn's drinking. On New Year's 1946, the strain of the marriage reaches its peak and Sheila is forced to barney shoot dead. Naturally regretting the ordeal she like all of us in a similar situation would wish for a do-over, the big "if, if I could only." In Leslie's case this wish is granted but she must re-live the year in the process.
This noir/fantasy hybrid is more than palpable once one accepts the outlandish premise. An urbane cast of the leads Tom Conway, Virginia Field a ditzy but subtly sharp, Natalie Shaffer and a fine sensitive turn from Richard Basehart make this an entertaining if not gripping mix, outside of Heyward's impressive descent into madness, which deserves special mention.
This noir/fantasy hybrid is more than palpable once one accepts the outlandish premise. An urbane cast of the leads Tom Conway, Virginia Field a ditzy but subtly sharp, Natalie Shaffer and a fine sensitive turn from Richard Basehart make this an entertaining if not gripping mix, outside of Heyward's impressive descent into madness, which deserves special mention.