Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

ikedelman-1 Robert Young plays a real heel. One of his conquests is killed and he is blamed. The film does not follow a formula. The ending is a shocker.

DKosty123 This RKO Film Noir stands above a lot of the studios films in the late 1940's. There are lots of good folks in the cast. Even some of the unaccredited extras are known from other films. I thought I actually spotted an unaccredited Frank Cady (Hooterville Store Keeper Sam Drucker) in the Jury at the end of the film. Could just be another bald guy.Robert Young carries the film and the story is done flashback style from his court trial for murder. The writing is good as this writer who wrote the story could write as he also wrote the story for the Hitchcock classic - "Shadow Of A Doubt". The screen writer who adapted his story would later do some of the better scripts for TV's Perry Mason. This quality of writers shows up in the film script.I like the way the story is handled here because there are times flashback gets confusing. This one does not and the ending is really worth sticking around for. I watched the black and white version of this on TCM. RKO did this as a "B"film quite obviously by the length of the feature.This film is a feast for people who like a good noir and in a way Robert Young here is the father who knows best.

juanandrichard Contrary to what some previous reviews have stated, Susan Hayward was not first billed; Robert Young was the top billed player. Cast against his usual type of role, Robert Young was perfect in the role. Comparing him to how other actors might have played the role makes no sense to me, except as an exercise in "armchair casting". The standout for me in the actresses was Rita Johnson, who was terrific. A most underrated actress (catch her in "The Big Clock"). Jane Greer was a truly beautiful woman, and it is a shame that she never achieved the heights of stardom that others did. Susan Hayward, on her way up the ladder, was as always a knockout - this is my personal favorite period for her (including "Deadline At Dawn") I thought the picture was almost perfect, full of irony and suspense. As always, the RKO cinematography is second to none. What a look those RKO movies had!

bkoganbing Robert Young scores a real acting triumph playing against his nice guy Father Knows Best type to play a womanizer who fate deals a really tricky hand. The film is a combination of The Apartment and The Postman Always Rings Twice.As in The Apartment where Fred MacMurray has the nice established front of the wife and kiddies and carries on with whomever in the office, Young is the outwardly happily married man whose got a real itch that needs scratching. He's scratching it with Jane Greer at the moment while he's married to Rita Johnson. Greer gets tired of the arrangement and gives Young the door. Young then takes up with the saucy office tramp Susan Hayward and in doing so takes her away from Tom Powers the boss.I can't go any further except to say two women wind up dead, the third one turns evidence on him and Young winds up on trial for his life. The film is told in flashback while Young is put on the witness stand by his lawyer Frank Ferguson. As he tells his story he knows that They Won't Believe Me.This is one of the cleverest noir films going. Had it been done at 20th Century Fox it would have been played by Tyrone Power in one of his heel characterizations. Young did a brilliant job with this role juggling his love life around these three beauties. And I can't single one of the women to say they stood above the others.Definitely a must for fans of the noir genre.