Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre encounter strange Geraldine Fitzgerald and end up collaborating on a sweepstake bet in John Huston (he claims it was his idea) - Howard Koch screenplay, which gets increasingly twisty. We then follow the individual stories and come to realise that Lorre - who's involved with crooks Robert Shayne, thuggish but likeable Peter Whitney and accessory Joan Lorring - is the most decent one of them. Greenstreet is swindling his client Rosalind Ivan (with amusing twist involving dead husband) and Fitzgerald torments estranged husband Alan Napier. Has a nice ironic payoff.
Adolph Deutsch scored, Arthur Edeson on camera, for Warners.
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