Who says MGM didn't make films noir? From the pen of Double Indemnity author James M Cain comes another story of a man who kills for a woman - it's in a very different league to Wilder's film but is not without its cinematic moments of interest, e.g. the way we keep cutting to John Garfield as Cecil Kellaway (the priest in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?) informs him and Lana Turner he's moving to Canada.
Nice contrasty photography by Sidney Wagner, whoever she is.
Hume Cronyn does turn up, eventually, and he's rather good.
Tay Garnett made China Seas and ended up on TV.
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