Quite a bit of effort was made to build this up as Ginger Rogers' first British Picture. Despite a good cast, and classy settings and photography - though it would have been better in colour - this melodrama never really grips as it should. Something seems awry with David Miller's direction, and as if to compensate for the lethargy of the first fifty minutes or so, the final scenes are a frenetic melange of chases, fights and rough and tumble. In fact the most memorable aspect is the song, Love is a Beautiful Stranger, rendered exquisitely by Lita Roza over the opening credits.
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