After finding out that her husband was not killed in combat but was instead captured and interned in a prisoner-of-war camp two years earlier, "Janet Stewart" (Anabel Shaw) waits anxiously to meet him at a hotel in San Francisco. While waiting she happens to walk out onto the balcony and watches in horror as a man murders his wife in an adjacent room. The sight of this is too much for her to bear and she goes into a state of shock. Naturally, when her husband, "Lt. Paul Stewart" (Frank Latimore) arrives he finds her in this condition and immediately calls for a doctor. The doctor then recommends a leading specialist by the name of "Dr. Richard Cross" (Vincent Price) who just happens to be residing in that very hotel. The only problem is that Dr. Cross is the same person who Janet witnessed killing his wife. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a fairly entertaining crime-drama for the most part. As always Vincent Price performed in his usual professional manner but it was Lynn Bari (as Dr. Cross' nurse, "Elaine Jordan") who I thought was the more sinister of the two and actually carried this movie. Likewise, while the supporting cast was adequate, the plot was rather predictable and the movie lacked the necessary amount of zest for me to rate any higher than average.

And of course, he WAS punished but it was all so anti-climactic. Vincent Price strolled amiably off screen with District Attorney O'Neill (Reed Hadley) when it was all over, and the lack of a final explosive confrontation took a lot of the steam out of the finale. Up till then, Dr. Richard Cross's (Price) crime served as a back drop in a tense psychological game in which he and conniving mistress (Lynn Bari) sought to convince Mrs. Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) that she was slowly losing her mind. The theme was well established in the early Forties with a couple of treatments of "Gaslight", and the soft spoken, genteel manner of an actor like Price was quite suitable for his role here. Ultimately though, the picture misses the mark somewhat as Price's character goes bonkers a second time and chokes out his paramour. At that point, both the viewer and the good doctor realize that it's close to curtain call. With a little better writing, he might have gotten patient Edwards to take the fall and gotten away scot-free.

Anabel Shaw (Janet) gets thrown into some kind of zombie-like state after witnessing a murder. She is transferred to Vincent Price's (Dr Cross) psychiatric institution to 'recover' only recovery for her is the last thing on Price's mind. Both he and nurse Lynn Bari (Elaine) have been conducting an affair and the murder that Shaw witnessed was Price murdering his wife. And Price knows that she saw. Bari isn't too keen on having this witness around either. The film follows their attempts to prevent Shaw from telling the truth. They need to keep her sedated.......or worse....The film starts interestingly enough as we follow a spooky dream sequence and witness the murder through the eyes of Anabel Shaw while she waits for her husband in a hotel room. Unfortunately, we then get a dumb contrast as we are asked to believe that Shaw becomes rendered permanently speechless and wide-eyed as a result. It's laughable. All credibility and sympathy that we may have had for her character is thrown out of the window as she demonstrates an incredibly soppy, weak personality. It's also a bit of an insult to viewers considering the time of war and the atrocities that people would have had to see on a daily basis. Yet this pathetic figure can't handle someone being knocked on the head. Honestly! Just for that, I watched the film urging both Price and Bari to finish her off and hopefully get away with it. Go on Price and Bari, do what you gotta do...!!...It's an OK film that never quite gathers momentum but Vincent Price and Lynn Bari are strong enough to carry the proceedings through to a rather messy and rushed finale.

A young woman (Anabel Shaw) goes into shock after she witnesses a murder. Unfortunately for her, the doctor at the sanatorium (Vincent Price) assigned to her was the murderer. He killed his wife during an argument, and now he's in the position to keep the only witness drugged up. When she finally does get to spill the beans, he convinces everyone, including her husband, that she's insane. Lynn Bari plays Price's Lady MacBeth-like mistress who keeps driving Price to do horrible things. There's more than a bit of silliness to the picture, but it's a pretty tense little flick (running only 70 minutes). I think this is one of Price's absolute best performances. He's actually not a bad guy at all, but the weight of the situation, as well as his evil girlfriend (Bari is pure evil), drive him to do things he normally wouldn't be able to do. And Price plays it all marvelously.