I expected more from this. Probably because it's from Fritz Lang. I imagined a top-shelf picture with some major set-pieces. Also after recently admiring Glenn Ford in Gilda, I wanted to see more of his range. Instead I felt this was a B movie with little heft to it. The sets are pretty junky and the premise is by now exhausted. I also don't feel a very strong directorly hand guiding this. I preferred Where the Sidewalk Ends, which is kind of similar to this. Glenn Ford is just P.O'd for too long here.
And I would personally offer to dig a grave for the film that introduced the "wife-and-child-in-peril-initiating-the-hubbies-grudge" volition. I cannot stand this plot, and to this day every half-assed director uses it at one point or another in their career. The only movie earlier than this where I saw it used, was Hitchcock's The Man who Knew too Much with Nova Pilbeam in which viewers were somehow spared looking at the hubbies annoying self-righteous anger for the entire running time.
And I would personally offer to dig a grave for the film that introduced the "wife-and-child-in-peril-initiating-the-hubbies-grudge" volition. I cannot stand this plot, and to this day every half-assed director uses it at one point or another in their career. The only movie earlier than this where I saw it used, was Hitchcock's The Man who Knew too Much with Nova Pilbeam in which viewers were somehow spared looking at the hubbies annoying self-righteous anger for the entire running time.