This was one of the last films in which Bette Davis would play love scenes although as a fine actress she didn't have to rely on sex appeal to obtain work. There was something of an old-home-week atmosphere at work here; seven years earlier she had played Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green, a huge stage success written by Emlyn Williams, who played opposite her here and apart from that the director was journeyman Irving Rapper who made several movies with Davis including Now, Voyager. The actual film is about one step above a pot-boiler and would be difficult to make work without a lead of Davis' calibre. She was still in the first full year of her marriage to Gary Merrill which may explain why he was cast as her leading man and it's interesting to note that the ending is not unlike Duel In The Sun without the desert.
Review of Another Man's Poison
