Especially mine ! The heroine (June Lockart ) attends her own funeral and confides her fears to the family's attorney who rides her back to her desirable mansion ,for she is a wealthy heiress; did someone try to do away with her on the night of the fire of the stables ? Much to her family's and entourage's surprise ,she reappears : her adoptive sister even thinks it's a plot to drive her crazy : Cathy O'Donnell ,although she gets top billing ,is only supporting ,her screen time is small compared to Lockart 's;she's cast against type ,in a part very different from the good girl she usually portrays in such works as Ray's "they live by night" or her brother-in-law Wyler's "detective story" or " Ben Hur" .
She's not ,like in "Ben Hur ",the virtuous sister but a jealous one (I was adopted by your father,you were the favorite ) , calculating and interested in muscle men,here prizefighter George (Greg McClure ,"the great John L Sullivan "(1945).)
The story is close to William Irish 's style with an Agatha Christie's whodunit thrown in for good measure ;using many flashbacks, and involving many suspects ,with a very surprising ending which recalls " black angel" (from Irish) in which Dan Duryea "helped " June Vincent.
She's not ,like in "Ben Hur ",the virtuous sister but a jealous one (I was adopted by your father,you were the favorite ) , calculating and interested in muscle men,here prizefighter George (Greg McClure ,"the great John L Sullivan "(1945).)
The story is close to William Irish 's style with an Agatha Christie's whodunit thrown in for good measure ;using many flashbacks, and involving many suspects ,with a very surprising ending which recalls " black angel" (from Irish) in which Dan Duryea "helped " June Vincent.