Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart

A psychopathic artist is paired with an unsuspecting wife.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Peter Godfrey

Release Date: March 4, 1947

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  • December 25, 2007
    this flick overthrows the usual typecasting for humprey bogart and babara stanwyck, the former constantly as detective hero or gangster villain; the later freuently as self-assured heroine or shrewd femme fatale. now both of them are handled in the niches which could be iconclast...( read more)ic to their usual screen images. this pecuilar set-up might be odd but somehow weirdly divertive.

    the plotline goes like bogart(mr. carreols) as an artist who is having illict affair with stanwyck who is unaware that he's a married man. then she flees away after an unexpected discovery that forces borgie to poison his wife with a glass of milk mingled with arsenic. after years of happy bond with stanwyck, he gets wearily drained becuz he absorbs all the musings she could possibly inspire on him. then he tries to murder his present wife again after he seeks love in his beau monde art sponsor, also with a glass of milk blended with lethal arsenic.

    the idea to cast borgie as the blue-beard compulsive serial killer is sorta uncanny, but the script dubs some notions to make sense on his lunatic motives. this painter is a parasite leech which sucks up the amorous essence out of its female hosts to accomplish his great art pieces. when he's in love with a woman, he nullifies everything for her. when love fades, he poisons her to death then commemorate her demise with an eerie skeleton portrait of her. at last when he gets caught, borgie leaves a phenomenal line "do you want a glass of milk?"

    rarely seen stanwyck as helpless victim, but it's amazing that she could also play gently meek character convincingly even it's more hellish fun to see her being predatory vixen.

    generally this flick might not be innovative enough to be considered a murderer classic but still fun to toy with the concepts of tranquil drama full of stealthy twists that requires an viewer with patience to appreciate slow-paced story.
  • January 17, 2007
    Nothing special at all. I kind of had to force myself to get through it.
  • July 18, 2008
    Intriguing pairing of Bogart and Stanwyck. Some good thrills.
  • July 6, 2009
    Dark and evil; I liked it because to me every movie with Humphrey Bogart is like opening a mysterious leather-cased volume about the old times, but probably not everyone is as susceptible to this feeling as I am. It has a lot of the charm of other Bogart movies in terms of clever...( read more) bon mots and the like, but I realize that by today's standards the story is pretty straightforward and the end does not come very surprising. Still, I strongly recommend this to anyone who gets a chance to watch it.
  • February 14, 2009
    This movie has a strange but sadistic spin
  • August 29, 2008
    classic film..why not..
  • April 17, 2007
    pretty ridiculous. hardly the best for anybody involved but worth watching once
  • February 19, 2007
    Humphrey Bogart's over the top performance as an anxiety ridden artist with a compulsion to alter paintings of the women he loves as he poisons them is nearly equalled by Barbara Stanwyck's "Gas Light" type paranoia as she realizes what she's married. Great characters in the su...( read more)pporting cast and laugh out loud one liners break the tension just when you think Bogart may explode like a victim from "Scanners". This may have been intended as a suspense thriller, but it would find more fans in the black comedy section.

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