Controversial issues imbue the gothic hugger-mugger of this film and The Seventh Victim with intimacy and intensity.

Tourneur apparently has that art of generating the "mystic atmosphere," which is so important in these eerie film plays.

It's good "escape" stuff, this RKO Radio production... A most dramatic beginning is offset by the confusion in the ending, but it will still give you the creeps, pretty nearly all the way through.

A film that’s as poetic and dreamlike as it is suspenseful.