terrific noir with Stanwyck and Lancaster....and a great ending!

There's something very silly about the construction, but I can't deny it was very effective at building suspense. As details were unraveled I became more and more interested in how things would unfold and I wasn't disappointed. The resolution's not surprising but it's still very good.

So-so suspense. From Barbara Stanwyck's point of view, almost every piece of information is gleaned from the telephone, which often becomes an instrument of menace. The film is heavy on exposition and light on tension, but has some interesting plot developments and a satisfying conclusion. One's sympathies shift as we see Stanwyck and Lancaster from the perspectives of other characters. Stanwyck's performance isn't that great, but it has a fun campy edge to it.

Too high-strung to really work effectively as suspense. There's nowhere to go, dramatically, when it's pitched at hysteria right from the start. That said, the restrictive use of location works well.

You think you know the ending, and you do. But you don't! Too bad that the endless parade of flashbacks undermine the thrills of the story. And Stanwyck, tough and powerful, is unbelievable as an invalid. Her screen persona just does not complement such a weak character. I still love her, though.

The ending sequence is very chilling, but I found the rest of the movie boring and hated the characters.

A boring dud. The tension, what little there is, gets suspended and lost in a constant barrage of flashbacks. The acting ranges from amateur to overly melodramatic.

There's something truly diabolical in being witness to the events leading up to your death, before you die. Yet the very wordy (radioplay) screenplay never quite reaches the cinematic heights it reaches for, probably because it kicks the melodrama into overdrive right when it shouldn't. Still, there's a lot to love here.

Yeah, it's a little overcomplicated and artificial, but it has a pretty good third act. Look for William Conrad as a calmly menacing racketeer.

This was very dull & very poorly executed. Plus poor Barbara Stanwyck is confined to a bed throughout!

One of the most boring thrillers ever produced. Whose idea was it to have a flashback within a flashback?

The plot is a little too convoluted and a little coincidental (How wonderful that Leona happens to listen into a conversation that gives the details of her own death!) but Barbara Stanwyck's descent into paranoia and hysteria is stunning.

Not bad, but not as suspenseful as I'd anticipated. Can't compare to Hitchcock. Throughout a lot of the movie, I felt that they should have been evoking more sympathy for Leona, so that I'd actually care if she got killed or not, but the ending kind of made up for that. All in all, I think it was decent, but not great.

Ok, definite points for going with the ending that they did. That's always to be admired. But I felt there was something missing here. The shots of the shadowy intruder were great at building suspense, so why were there so few shots of him? Also, the flashbacks within flashbacks were a little hard to keep track of at times.

Pretty good stuff. Litvak knits together quite a complicated plot, unfurled thread by thread over telephone conversations, which makes for some suspenseful viewing.

Decent faux Hitchcock movie, but it has good things in it and the ending did surprise me.