Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Robert J. Maxwell It's pretty dull for the first two thirds of the movie. Kent Smith is the dignified, reserved, highly respected, happily married, wealthy, and thoroughly bored doctor in San Francisco. Every day is the same.Then he runs into Nora Prentiss, Anne Sheridan, or rather somebody else runs into her and he takes her to his office to fix her slightly bruised knee. Kaboom! For months they go at each other like two warthogs in heat. On the screen, they are two people in love with each other. A cynic might opine that the elderly doctor has finally found a young lady who makes him horny, while the night club floozy has nabbed a lover who is a doctor and is raking in the shekels and who might even divorce his bland wife and marry her and allow her to live the life style to which she's always aspired.Sheridan decides it can't go on like this, so she takes off for New York. Inspired, Smith hustles the corpse of a homeless patient who has just died in his office, equips the corpse with his own identification, and pushes it off a cliff in a burning car. End of Doctor Talbot; birth of Mister Thompson, who withdraws a lot of money from the bank and chases Sheridan to New York.He grows terrified of being found out. He takes to drink. He holes up in a hotel while Sheridan gets a job as a night club singer. He begins to look like hell. He turns extremely, violently jealous of Sheridan.The ending, which medical discretion forbids me to reveal, certainly revives the interest of the patient who must be nearly comatose by now. A wild pursuit, a flaming car crash, the unveiling of the shattered face. But then the story completely implodes. Or -- well, let me ask you. Would you willingly sit in the electric chair in order to preserve the dignity of your dull family? You WOULD? Kent Smith is good at being reserved. He's always reserved. He's a reserved man. It's his stock in trade on the screen. He was not even unnerved when confronted by his wife after she'd turned into a black panther in "Curse of the Cat People." Ann Sheridan is okay although she doesn't really seem to be the seductress that the film wants her to be. She's more of a decent babe who is good natured and outdoorsy.

Applause Meter This B movie melodrama of love and the tragedy of mistaken identity is a quagmire of improbable twists and turns. Kent Smith, an actor with no screen charisma, plays a doctor and solid family man who falls for nightclub singer Ann Sheridan. There is no heat in their coupling; he courts his new love like a dispassionate doctor making a routine house call on a patient. After some initial snappish, flirtatious interchange with the doctor, Sheridan presents her character as refined and lady-like, not a nightclub flame that sets men afire with self-destructive desire. And self-destruction is what lies in wait for the doctor. Not an example of the noir genre, this is a tepid movie, grim and dour.

cutterccbaxter Kent Smith portrays a doctor with a mustache who lives in San Fransico. He is married and he hooks up with a nightclub singer portrayed by Ann Sheridan. Kent wants to run off with Ann but he lacks the guts to tell his wife. Eventually Kent fakes his own death, so he can run off to New York City with Ann. In NYC Kent becomes so mentally unstable that he shaves off his mustache. Once his mustache is gone Kent's life becomes a complete shambles and he ends up being convicted for murdering himself. This okay by Kent because he knows he messed up big time he deserves to be punished. Nora Prentiss totally sucked me in. Yeah, the melodrama is laid on thick and the acting is clunky, but sometimes that's not such a bad thing.

bkoganbing I'm surprised that no one has picked up on the fact that Nora Prentiss is merely an updated version of Theodore Dreiser's classic Sister Carrie. Since Dreiser had died a couple of years before, he didn't pick up on it or Warner Brothers would have had a libel suit on its hands.Sister Carrie was set in the turn of the last century and dealt with Victorian mores. Even in post World War II America, it seems that not much has changed. Respectable and proper Kent Smith is a forty something doctor, married with two children, in a respectable middle class rut. He's about to break loose for some big life crisis. The catalyst for that is Ann Sheridan in the title role. Sheridan is a sultry night club singer who gets hit by a cab and is treated in Kent Smith's nearby office. Had the film been made at Columbia, Rita Hayworth would have been ideal for the lead. But Ann Sheridan does do a good job and even does her own singing. Hayworth would have made the film a classic.The film does descend into melodrama though moving far afield from the social commentary that Theodore Dreiser had in mind. But Kent Smith's character's degradation is as complete as Dreiser's George Hurstwood.I would recommend seeing this film and the film that Sir Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones did, Carrie, and comparing the two versions.