Lang takes a fairly traditional approach to structuring shots. This sometimes makes the film a little stiff, but it also achieves the opposite. Several scenes play out with Lang setting his camera in one corner of the set and just panning and pivoting to take in the shifting action, giving the moments he cuts and zooms in more authority. Stanwyck is characteristically terrific, and there's a nice supporting turn by Monroe. Best of all is Douglas, a fine character actor taken through the wringer.

Good film made great by that final act, which while superficially simple is an emotionally complex and thematically consistent conclusion to Mae's struggles with identity and freedom. All the performances here are top notch, and all 5 main characters provide different perspectives on the changing attitudes towards women's rights, with a couple of bonus moments from the replant uncle.

It's alright, but calling it noir is a real stretch. There are worse ways to spend an hour forty-five, but this left no lasting impression on me. Barbara Stanwyck is quality as usual, though.

A good noir melodrama and character study. The tension just slowly boils throughout, thanks mostly to great performances. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan are the highlights. Lang's direction is serviceable if unremarkable.

It starts out slow, for about the first half hour or so, and it just ends so abruptly with what feels like a terribly tacked on happy-go-lucky ending but it's still a very enjoyable watch due to it's exploration of human relations during the moments in between.

Good acting, but the film just never seems to really take off. Even the ending is kind of abrupt, with no real resolution to any of the characters whatsoever.

Although she's sporting the most appalling haircut of her film career (think Ethel Mertz crossed with yr grandma), Barbara Stanwyck turns in another stunning performance as a fickle slut who walks her own path quote unquote. The movie's a half-hour too long, but Robert Ryan is a joy to watch in his surly magnificence and Marilyn Monroe (in her first major role) is bimbo autism at its finest. Grade is for the first 75 minutes only

Good movie about passion and desire, with particularly powerful performances by Stanwyck and Ryan.

Terrific dialogue, good performances, and a boiling love triangle. But it's not noir, at least not in my. The noir I like requires high stakes: someone's going to get killed, or going to jail for a long, long time. Some might argue that love is the highest stake of all, and some of the best noirs use love as a lynchpin, but for me there has to be more than just romance on the line. So it's not film noir, but it's still pretty good. Except for the ending, which comes far, far too easily.