Unsurprisingly Stanwyck is the highlight here. Her role here is tailor made for her and she nails it, making the audience feel exactly the same way about Thelma Jordon as the small town lawyer she seduces. Other than that performance it's a solid, but unspectacular, noir. Shady dealing, dramatic scenes, characters dealing with inner conflicts and an ending helped along by the production code.

Solid noir. The first third is somewhat slow, but does a necessary job of laying the groundwork for what comes later in the film. It picks up a great deal later on, with both Corey and Stanwyck doing a good job of portraying complex characters, each backed into a corner by their own duplicity. Some nice plot twists along the way, and a particularly memorable ending.

Stanwyck and Corey are both fantastic, the story unfolds nicely, there's some good dialogue and standard noir staples, and there's a couple of outstanding scenes. But only a couple, and that's the problem. All of it is at least mildly interesting, but there's only a few points where it really gets exciting. And it's kind of retread of Double Indemnity, uncomfortably so in some ways. Fun to watch, mostly because of the two terrific leads, just don't expect to be blown away by it.