Fairly routine but satisfying thriller in which a woman must save her husband but gets sidelined by a desperate escaped convict. Stanwyck is good as always and Meeker is gleefully sinister. The film is diminished by the presence of an annoying child, but gets elevated by a couple of interesting ways in which it subverts production code. Unfortunately I can't discuss them without giving away key plot points. Tune out the little brat (actually most of the first half) and it's not a bad flick.

A marvelous turn by Ralph Meeker. The scenes with Stanwyck and him are clearly the highlight. Great lines: "Frankly, I'm not a family man" "Out of the nowhere into the here" "I like cheap perfume--it don't last as long, but it hits harder." Starts off like a sitcom, with lame voiceover and inconsequential music. Not real sure about the plausibility of the whole fallen piling/giant crowbar pulled by car thing--or Meeker's sudden transformation at the end. Still, a nicely subversive little film.