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I disagree that this is a film noir. (And yes, I know it's in Silver and Ursini's Encyclopedia.)

The only thing it has in common with noir is a major betrayal and the usual "let's plot to kill him" story line. (It was done better without the gimmicky insanity element elsewhere - Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice come to mind.)

It struck me as much more of a run of the mill 1960's Universal style teleplay than a true film noir (or neo noir). It looked and felt too much like, say, a William Castle movie or an episode of Burke's Law than something that could sit beside real noirs.

I found it disappointing. I encounter lots of unjustly neglected and overlooked films - but this one, in my opinion, is justly neglected. Overlong and overwrought.

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I saw the film for the first time yesterday on TCM this was one of a number of "B" (in some cases pretty bad ones, BS was one of the better ones) films Warner Bros had that year alone with such losers as Two on a Guillotine, My Blood Runs Cold and a few others I cannot recall all done on the cheap all in black & white

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