An independent production by Jack. L. Warner released through Fox with an unrepeatable trio of leads. (John Dall returned to the stage and didn't make another movie until 'Spartacus' nearly ten years later; while Jane Wyatt's film career was disrupted by the blacklist and she instead found her niche on TV in 'Father Knows Best'.) Top-billed Lee J. Cobb is eccentrically cast as Dall's brother (I guess only their mother could tell them apart), and his relationship with high maintainance femme fatale Jane Wyatt is rather hard to believe. Thereafter he soon settled into heading the supporting cast.
Although usually described as such, this isn't really a typical film noir (although Ms Wyatt is appropriately bad news as the femme fatale), since instead of the urban hell of nighttime New York we are treated to an attractively sunlit San Francisco used as an incongruous backdrop to a tale of adultury and murder as Hitchcock did a few years later in colour in 'Vertigo'.
Although usually described as such, this isn't really a typical film noir (although Ms Wyatt is appropriately bad news as the femme fatale), since instead of the urban hell of nighttime New York we are treated to an attractively sunlit San Francisco used as an incongruous backdrop to a tale of adultury and murder as Hitchcock did a few years later in colour in 'Vertigo'.