Assistant District Attorney Cleve Marshall, depressed about marital troubles, is drowning his sorrows in a bottle of whiskey when the mysterious and alluring Thelma Jordon walks in to report an attempted burglary. The two become romantically involved and not long afterwards there is a burglary and murder at Thelma's aunt's house. Cleve is drawn further and further into defending and covering up for Thelma. It soon becomes clear that this road will only lead to disaster.... (Full plot summary below)
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Assistant District Attorney Cleve Marshall, depressed about marital troubles, is drowning his sorrows in a bottle of whiskey when the mysterious and alluring Thelma Jordon walks in to report an attempted burglary. The two become romantically involved and not long afterwards there is a burglary and murder at Thelma's aunt's house. Cleve is drawn further and further into defending and covering up for Thelma. It soon becomes clear that this road will only lead to disaster.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe performances by both Stanwyck and Corey are strong. |
| User ReviewSean GOne of the noir cycle's best titles ushers in one of its better offerings. Barbara Stanwyck's assumption of the title role, of course, gives the picture a running start. She had worked with Billy Wilder - and helped to shape the cycle - in Double Indemnity, and was to work with Fritz Lang in Clash by Night and even Anthony Mann in The Furies (a western, yes, but a dark one), all key noir craftsmen. Here her director is the no less central Robert Siodmak, and her performances in this and the other titles cited (plus The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and at least five other suspense films of the 1940s and 1950s) cement her sobriquet as the First Lady of Film Noir... Hooked And Begging For More--The combination of an unhappy man with an ambitious woman is a formula for disaster, as we have seen in a lot of film noir offerings. In this story, Cleve Marshall, and assistant D.A., proves to be the perfect target for what a scheming lady like Thelma Jordon has in mind. From the start, Thelma is too happy to oblige the interest and the passion she incites in Cleve... Once a dame, always a dame-Turns out she was a Dame with a conscience!! |
| User ReviewAlex BWhodunnit? There aren't really any surprises; Thelma asks for help from the district attorney's office in solving break-ins at her aunt's house and begins an affair with the married assistant DA. When her aunt is murdered she ends up in court with him as prosecutor in a story whose turns can mostly be predicted. |
| User ReviewDavid SBarbara Stanwyck is up to her old tricks again as femme fatale Thelma Jordon (not Jordan), who gets married assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall (played by an unprepossessing Wendell Corey *) involved in the murder of her wealthy aunt. Fun little noir. *I spent much of the movie wondering what two lovelies like Stanwyck and Joan Tetzel, who played his long-suffering wife, saw in the guy. |
