From Anne Parrish's book about a manipulative woman who moves in with a girlfriend and proceeds to wreck the poor thing's love life. Stodgy, urbane soap opera with gossipy asides, targeted at female audiences of the day but really too nonsensical to be of much interest any longer. Director Nicholas Ray curiously smooths out all the tension in the plotting, and none of the characters are particularly well-defined. Robert Ryan gives the proceedings a little lift as a gruff, sexy writer, Joan Leslie has a few strong scenes as an unsuspecting victim, but Joan Fontaine is rather colorless in the lead. Glossy and inert. ** from ****
Review of Born to Be Bad
