The plot about a young woman who is admitted to a sanitarium run by the same man she witnessed murder his wife the night before from her hotel balcony isn't very suspenseful. About all the film has is good parts for Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, and later a District Attorney played by Reed Hadley. Bari plays a sexy and manipulative psychiatric nurse, an interesting combination for that particular occupation, while Price plays the doctor who is running the private sanitarium, who falls under her influence. It's a great part for him. When Reed Hadley shows up a little over half way through the film as a DA investigating another murder that looks a lot like what happened to Price's wife, Price's part gets more stressed out than it was earlier when it was dealing with guilt brought on by the murder or manslaughter of his wife. There's kind of a silly and disappointing climax, and as for the girl (Annabel Shaw), her part in this film should have been much better.
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