One of the greatest American films of the 1940s, Otto Preminger's perverse, elegant, tightly scripted mystery-thriller-romance looks better than ever. After a glamorous Manhattan career woman gets a shotgun makeover, the police detective investigating the murder finds himself falling in love with the deceased. Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney make one of the most appealing noir couples, but they are nearly eclipsed by another duo: Andrews and his unexpected alter ego Clifton Webb, the latter in a legendary performance as acid-tongued Broadway columnist Waldo Lydecker. (MR) Screened in 2008 as part of Dark Corners: Film Noir from the Fox Archive.
