Producer: Collier Young. Copyright 25 September 1950 by RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc. A Filmmakers Presentation. New York opening at the Criterion: 14 October 1950. U.K. release: floating from December 1951. Australian release: 23 February 1951. 6,988 feet. 77 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A traumatized assault victim flees her home town.
NOTES: Third film for director Ida Lupino and final film for veteran electrician S.H. Barton (Son of Kong, The Little Minister, etc.). Although elaborately "introduced" in the movie, both Mala Powers and Tod Andrews made their movie debuts in the early 1940s. Rita Lupino is the director's younger sister.
COMMENT: Despite its deceptive poster, trailer and pre-credits sequence, this well-polished "B" is not a film noir. True, both plot and staging have noirish elements, but the bulk of the movie is a one-sided romance between an affable young minister (Tod Andrews aka Michael Ames) and the psychologically disturbed heroine (convincingly played by Mala Powers).
Ida Lupino, as director and co-writer has ensured that the movie looks and sounds true-to-life by utilizing some evocative locations as well as conventional studio sets. The support roster, headed by dull-as-ditchwater Robert Clarke, merely serves as background to the main Andrews-Powers romantic action, though Paris and Mellen are each allowed an effective moment.
SYNOPSIS: A traumatized assault victim flees her home town.
NOTES: Third film for director Ida Lupino and final film for veteran electrician S.H. Barton (Son of Kong, The Little Minister, etc.). Although elaborately "introduced" in the movie, both Mala Powers and Tod Andrews made their movie debuts in the early 1940s. Rita Lupino is the director's younger sister.
COMMENT: Despite its deceptive poster, trailer and pre-credits sequence, this well-polished "B" is not a film noir. True, both plot and staging have noirish elements, but the bulk of the movie is a one-sided romance between an affable young minister (Tod Andrews aka Michael Ames) and the psychologically disturbed heroine (convincingly played by Mala Powers).
Ida Lupino, as director and co-writer has ensured that the movie looks and sounds true-to-life by utilizing some evocative locations as well as conventional studio sets. The support roster, headed by dull-as-ditchwater Robert Clarke, merely serves as background to the main Andrews-Powers romantic action, though Paris and Mellen are each allowed an effective moment.