Fritz Lang has long been suspected of murder in the death of his first wife, Lisa Rosenthal. This movie is pretty obviously a creepy attempt on his part to psychoanalyze it all better for himself. It is a disturbing, violent, sadistic, and unconvincing look at femicide. Michael Graves plays a psychotic woman-hating architect who lies about everything, all the time, and keeps at least a dozen scarves laying around his mortgaged mansion so that the camera can zoom in on him twisting them in his hands as he contemplates throttling his wife. Miss Bennet's gowns, furs, and jewelry are literally the best thing this stinker of a film has to offer. Ugh.
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