The File on Thelma Jordan (1950 Robert Siodmak)

Assistant DA Wendell Corey is having some marriage difficulties and enjoys at least six whiskies in the first scene, then bumps into married Barbara Stanwyck, and before long, they're seeing each other. Then her aunt is murdered and he must prosecute her for the murder...

It's a neat, suitably noiry plot, from a story by Marty (aka Mary) Holland, who also wrote the novel on which Fallen Angel was based - the screenwriter is the great-named Ketti Frings (also wrote the novel of Hold Back the Dawn).

Rest of cast: Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel (wife), Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober (baddie), Minor Watson (judge).

Music by Victor Young, shot with shadowy flourishes by George Barnes, for RKO. Siodmak had a creative 1940s in which he made The Killers, The Dark Mirror, Criss Cross, The Spiral Staircase and Phantom Lady.

These are DVDBeaver captures, not from the soft and noisy print Film4 was kind enough to share.