A young woman named Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) receives a "dear John" letter in the mail from her lover who is stationed in Korea during the war. The letter crushes her.
She then accepts a date with a man named Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Prebble has ulterior motives for wanting to date Norah. He gets her drunk and takes her to his apartment when he continues to supply her with alcohol.
Too drunk to even walk, she seems to see someone enter the room and kill Harry then she passes out. Before you know it she is one the run fearing that she herself killed the cad.
Enter Casey Mayo (Richard Conte) a newspaper man who wants a scoop. Casey tries to use a publicity stunt to get the real killer to come forward, and then he begins to get too involved with Norah as she comes forth as the killer.
Mayo then tries to prove her innocent in a great but slightly rushed climax.
This film does move along nicely and everyone does a great job. There are not a lot of twists and turns as one would expect from a film noir, nor is there a bleak ending, but Lang manages to give us a beautiful shot film that manages to hold your attenton for 90 minutes.
The rest of the cast includes Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ann Sothern, Jeff Donnell and Ruth Storey.
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