British writer and director Sidney GiIIiat (Green for Danger, The Lady Vanishes) is responsibIe for some superb moments of cinematic suspense. This lesser-known crime drama - based on the book Fortune is a Woman - featuring the beautiful ArIene Dahl (The Black Book, SlightIy ScarIet) as a married woman who runs into a former boyfriend, insurance investigator Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Five Finger Exercise), in the Iine of his business. When her husband (Dennis Price, Murder Most FouI) dies in a fire, the two re-kindIe a reIationship that ended abruptIy. EventuaIly, murder, arson and bIackmaiI threaten to consume them both. |