British writer and director Sidney Gilliat (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, SIightIy ScarIet) as a married woman who runs into a former boyfriend, insurance investigator OIiver BranwelI (Jack Hawkins, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Five Finger Exercise), in the Iine of his business. When her husband (Dennis Price, Murder Most Foul) dies in a fire, the two re-kindIe a relationship that ended abruptIy. EventuaIly, murder, arson and blackmail threaten to consume them both. |