A silly film

Agreed on the implausibility aspect. A potentially good film somewhat marred by a desperately weak plot. Laura or Where The Sidewalk Ends are far better examples of noir pieces by Preminger.

The murder plot was like a creaky episode of Columbo. How could Korvo be sure that Ann would arrive and have time to hide the recordings before security turned up? Given that these records were so incriminating, I would've thought he would have told her to dump them in a trash can somewhere and go to Randolph's under another pretext. OK, I'm taking this way too seriously........

I don't know why people feel the need to complain about the silliness of noir films. To me it's cinematic poetry. Visual aesthetics, milieu and atmosphere are more important than story lines. The plot becomes less and less important. I found the self-hypnosis scene extremely intriguing and captivating. The close-up of the mirror really got to me.

I saw this on TCM yesterday and thought it was one of THE dumbest movies ever.

When the film first came on I thought Korvo was a doctor? He wasn't! Why the hell was Ann seeing him if she felt she needed help?

In a second someone has concluded exactly what happened-that Ann was hypnotized and sent to the victim's home.

Once Korvo had the recordings why didn't he destroy them?

Why didn't Sutton give them to the police immediately knowing they could help his wife?

Ann going back & forth with telling her husband what happened is easily one of the most annoying scenes in a movie ever! She hasn't told him one thing yet she starts screaming about him not believing her!

The detective changing his mind in the middle of the night was .....???

This movie was a mess!

Richard Conte wasn't believable as the doctor and jumped off the screen as the gigolo hypnotist even though he wasn't. While Ferer should have been cast as Dr Sutton.

Sheldon:"Was the starfish wearing boxer shorts? Because you might have been watching Nickelodeon."

I liked the flick. And people commenting on Richard Conte playing a doctor. Well in my experience doctors act like everyone else. I am not sure what a doctor is suppose to act or look like. I had a doctor who saved my life and he looked like he just left Woodstock. So I am not sure why Conte is so bad playing a doctor.


Years ago people were really into that mind reading occult stuff. Especially the rich. So I can see the hypnotist being treated like a star. Heck we do that today with those nut cases who believe they talk to the dead. But I did think he was a doctor at first. She had problems anyway and she was venerable for a shyster like that hypnotist.

There was a Columbo episode like this. A deadly State of Mind Leslie Ann Warrren and George Hamilton was in it. and the plot was almost the same. But in this case it was the Warrens husband who was killed and she took the blame for it though. Geroge Hamilton's character was the famous hypnotist and she was his patient/lover/. Columbo was a very good show. And this movie came out long before Columbo

The premise is a bit stupid – maybe a lot stupid – but the performances kept me interested. 7/10 stars from me.

I lost it when Ferrer announces, in front of strangers, that socialite whats his name (prince whatever) has made a recent suicide attempt - Ferrer even takes the mans arm and shows those assembled (including this mans new bride) the cuts on his wrist from the suicide attempt (not to mention a 'diagnosis' of manic/depressive and violent). To top it off, the man confirms these are all accurate and and he is delighted to have this told revealed about him !! WTH ??

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