Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart) is a meek bespectacled pharmacy manager. His wife Claire (Audrey Totter) is a blonde bombshell with expensive tastes and wandering eyes. She eventually leaves him for the richer Barney Deager. After getting beat up by Barney, Warren starts obsessing for the perfect murder. All this is told in flashback and in narration by Police Lieutenant Collier Bonnabel.
It's a nice little pulpy noir. It has the opportunity for being a great character study of this loser. He's not showing enough fear and loathing. His pathetic nature could be highlighted more. Basehart is still a young pup as an actor. Totter is throwing every melodramatic kitchen sink at the screen. It's nice.
It's a nice little pulpy noir. It has the opportunity for being a great character study of this loser. He's not showing enough fear and loathing. His pathetic nature could be highlighted more. Basehart is still a young pup as an actor. Totter is throwing every melodramatic kitchen sink at the screen. It's nice.