Like in so many noirs, the most enjoyable ingredient of this film is the excellent dialog. It keeps you spellbound by its wit and suggestive innuendos all the way, everyone is clever and an interesting character, even the most idiosyncretic Edgar Buchanan as Jeff Cunningham, although they are all rather basic and normal - except Janis Carter, who is the leader of the film, very suavely leading you on in her very incalculable mind to some extreme surprises she didn't even expect herself. Glenn Ford made thjs before "Gilda" but it's the same character, - he always made the same character. Here he is more vulnerable and actually gets more than enough drunk twice, which makes him such a suitable puppet to use for an extremely criminal plot. It's a classic noir, the story will not disappoint you, and the final looks of Glenn Ford and Janis Carter will endure and follow you beyond the film.
