This is usually regarded as a paraphrase of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" the year before, but it is actually a variation. Above all, Leo Erdody's music lifts this film a storey higher, and the story for all its improbabilities, is intriguing enough. You might well question the good sense of Hugh Beaumont in falling for the lurid deceits of Ann Savage, but they both pay the price of it, including her lover. The direction is inferior indeed to that of Billy Wilder, but the story and intrigue is clever enough anyway. You can't blame them for paying the price and taking the consequences, although you must question the competence if Hugh Beaumont as a journalist to fall for such a false lady.