An interesting film. Joan Crawford has been seeing married-with-children Dana Andrews, a hot shot solicitor, who is very charming calling all the people he meets, male or female, 'honeybunch' and other terms of endearment, but who also has the most irritating habit of coming into a room and immediately turning off the record player. Anyway, she meets veteran Henry Fonda, who's a bit of a lost soul in some psychological distress, and who I thought was going to turn into a murderer.. but it wasn't that film (though could have been). Good to see this covered in a film so soon after the war.
When Andrews forces himself on her it's vile... but then so it is when his wife (Ruth Warrick) has struck her daughter so hard her ear is bleeding... It ends up a simple love triangle, but Andrews in particular has a way of just not listening to her requests like 'leave me alone', which is maddening.
Doesn't have much in the way of a music score for a film of this period. We're at Fox, so Leon Shamroy on camera. With Martha Stewart (not that one), Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Art Baker.
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