great soundtrack

While Glen Ford is ostensibly the lead, it's Grahame and Crawford who take center stage in a dark story about a stormy jealous marriage. I would have liked a little more fleshing out of some parts, but it's a very nice noir story.

Overall, it's better than Renoir's 'La Bête Humaine', except for the ending.

Another fine Fritz Lang production brought down by some lousy casting [Gloria Grahame is no Stanwyck] and a botched ending. Glenn Ford is still the man.

Story of passion and murder. Great use of train tracks as a metaphor for determinism, and a superb performance by Gloria Graham.

Glenn Ford is good and the photography is mostly great but everything else is average.

A psychologically dense tale of lust, rage, jealousy, domestic abuse, sexual violence... and murder. Crawford and Grahame expertly weave a relationship fraught with misery. Grahame is especially wonderful, bringing a rich emotional complexity to a character that could easily be played as one-note. The film packs a number of surprises and subverts some noir conventions. Add on a good score and some stark photography, and you've got a thoughtful, bleak portrait of frustration and desperation.