A bed-ridden husband convinces himself into thinking that his wife is going to kill him. He writes a letter to the district attorney telling him of his conviction, and his wife unknowingly delivers it to the postman; there isn't really anything new or quite interesting in this, except for the psychological factors involved.
Loretta Young gives another nervous, hysterical performance reminiscent of her earlier work with Orson Welles in "The Stranger," but this time her tension is the absolute focus of the story and the only thing that holds the audience. All throughout the film, she is worried to death about her letter and is trying to escape from the "framing" of her paranoid husband. The movie shows sequences of her trying desperately to get the letter back while under a great emotional and psychological strain from her unhappy relationship with her husband as well as the fear of becoming a suspect of the D.A.
The film is worth taking a look if just for the sake of watching Young's acting, which wholly transcends the mediocre plot. I would also add that this movie is not so much a film noir as a short psychological drama. The film definitely falls into the latter category, despite the frequent citing of sources as the former.
Loretta Young gives another nervous, hysterical performance reminiscent of her earlier work with Orson Welles in "The Stranger," but this time her tension is the absolute focus of the story and the only thing that holds the audience. All throughout the film, she is worried to death about her letter and is trying to escape from the "framing" of her paranoid husband. The movie shows sequences of her trying desperately to get the letter back while under a great emotional and psychological strain from her unhappy relationship with her husband as well as the fear of becoming a suspect of the D.A.
The film is worth taking a look if just for the sake of watching Young's acting, which wholly transcends the mediocre plot. I would also add that this movie is not so much a film noir as a short psychological drama. The film definitely falls into the latter category, despite the frequent citing of sources as the former.