1944 Hollywood meets Victorian England, complete with black-and-white photography, polite manners and old (old, not bad) acting. When Charles Boyer's greedy husband starts to subtly torture his fragile wife (Ingrid Bergman) to madness, Patrick Hamilton's play gets the full MGM treatment: this is elegant melodrama/thriller at it's best, folks, not gritty and sleazy modern cinema. Opulent period home, all black-and-white and complete with the flickering gas-lamps (it's all in your mind, dear), is clean from filthiness and pollution of the city, but Joseph Cotten as Scotland Yard detective has his suspicions of a certain husband... Sublime.
