Begins weirdly when Joseph Cotten arrives at a small town, knocks up old lady Spring Byington supposedly to look at the house he ran away from, ends up her lodger. Meets wheelchair-bound Alida Valli and claims he fell in love with her as a schoolkid.
But then he goes to help former crony Paul Stewart hold up a gambling joint...
So a satisfying romantic thriller about a man who's trying to go straight. Cotten has the talent to make much of this ambivalent role and Valli is touching. Also has great characters in the shape of her maid Esther Dale and his gambling boss John McIntyre.
Score by Frederick Hollander, Harry Wild on camera, for RKO (a Dore Scary production).
'Alida' as she's again billed here (after The Third Man) went back to working in Europe after this.
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