mlink-36-9815 Really boring blabbing movie. its hard to believe this script was even made. just the most annoying characters. do not bother with this movie. it is terrible. i cannot stand it. claudette colbert is awful. her character is dumb. robert cummings is really annoying. raymond burr is the best thing in the movie they should have made him the star.

kenjha A man plots his wife's demise while his lover waits impatiently. It treads familiar territory, with the story a variation of "Gaslight." However, it's a lot of fun, thanks to a good cast, a fast pace, and an engaging script. Colbert and Ameche collaborate for the third time ("Midnight" being the best) while Cummings plays a character similar to the one he later played in "Dial M for Murder." The tension is nicely balanced with touches of humor, with Johnson providing most of the comic relief. Before he became known for directing a series of melodramas in the 1950s, Sirk dabbled in some film noir, and this is his best, a big improvement over the previous year's "Lured."

Neil Doyle We're into familiar territory again with this would-be sleeper about a woman being drugged by her husband (DON AMECHE) for her inheritance and trying all manner of tricks to get her to think she's going insane.It all has a familiar ring--although this time, under Douglas Sirk's direction, it's all much too contrived and not too convincing in its execution.CLAUDETTE COLBERT is the poor victimized wife (but she's no Ingrid Bergman) and the cast-against-type DON AMECHE is much too affable to be chilling as the husband, unlike CHARLES BOYER in "Gaslight". Interestingly, ROBERT CUMMINGS is playing the same sort of role he essayed years later in "Dial M For Murder" whereby he helped Grace Kelly who was caught up in a sinister plot by her husband. Whatever, he's still pretty bland.In fact, that's the trouble with the whole film. It's bland despite the makings of a plot that should be mystifying and terrifying. Maybe a director other than Sirk could have done things with the bare bones of the story that would have turned it into the kind of chiller it's striving to be.Summing up: Not really worth your time.

Geofbob This 1948 b&w movie provides 90 minutes of diversion, but it contributes little to Douglas Sirk's reputation for stylish dramas capable of interpretation on many levels. Claudette Colbert plays a woman whose husband, Don Ameche, is trying to drive her insane by drugging her at night, and causing her to act irrationally. In the opening scene, she wakes up to find herself on a train, without knowing how she got there. Though the film has noirish touches, including some staircase shots with strong shadows, this is more a Hitchcockian thriller than a film-noir. Indeed, there is quite a mix of styles and characterisations (or caricatures in some cases). Romantic lead, Robert Cummings, and Rita Johnson as a ditzy friend, engage in banter, and could have stepped out of a Thin Man film. But perhaps the most unexpected and pleasing sequence is a Chinese wedding, to which Cummings takes Colbert, and which made me wonder whether Charlie Chan wasn't going to appear and close the case!