Don't marry a much older man no matter how much dough you think he has. Chances are, you'll get bored, find yourself a lover and manipulate the suckered dimwit into offing the old coot for you! If it wasn't Barbara Stanwyck in a ridiculous wig, it was Lana Turner in a white tennis outfit and matching turban. The sucker here is Hugh Beaumont, as far from Ward Cleaver as you can get, and the sultry femme fatale with a weapon of sex at her disposal, is Ann Savage who entered film noir immortality the same year in "Detour". This one isn't as well known, even though both were made from PRC who proved with these two that the initials didn't stand for pretty rotten cinema.
Beaumont is a reporter who shows up at millionaire Russell Hicks and ends up with a meeting which he'll regret. Beaumont and Savage begin an affair, she uses her womanly wiles to get him to agree to the murder, and then finds himself playing cat and mouse in order to hide the crime, continue to see each other, and try to find out what the other is up to. The parallels to" Double Indemnity" are obvious, but this has its own unique way to tell this version of the story. It's raw and unglamorous unlike Paramount's elaborate vision, and in a sense, uses the low budget and lack of focus in filmdom's mainstream to be less tactful in every sinister and sensual detail. Still far from perfect, it has enough twists and turns and surprises which makes this even better than it could have been had it come from another A studio.
Beaumont is a reporter who shows up at millionaire Russell Hicks and ends up with a meeting which he'll regret. Beaumont and Savage begin an affair, she uses her womanly wiles to get him to agree to the murder, and then finds himself playing cat and mouse in order to hide the crime, continue to see each other, and try to find out what the other is up to. The parallels to" Double Indemnity" are obvious, but this has its own unique way to tell this version of the story. It's raw and unglamorous unlike Paramount's elaborate vision, and in a sense, uses the low budget and lack of focus in filmdom's mainstream to be less tactful in every sinister and sensual detail. Still far from perfect, it has enough twists and turns and surprises which makes this even better than it could have been had it come from another A studio.