This little B-Movie, clocking in at a very economical 69 minutes, could easily have been an episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" with some top-notch guest stars, one of whom gets dispatched in the first ten minutes and he's the biggest name in the picture. The ridiculous plot hardly bears thinking about and yet it's that very plot that makes this so interesting. Laraine Day is the adulterous wife who accidentally stabs her lover but that's only the beginning of her troubles. While her lover lies conveniently in the box-room her snake of a brother-in-law, her lover's wife and her husband all gather in the sitting room; yep, it's mostly all done on the one set. It gets progressively sillier as it goes along but the very game cast, that includes Franchot Tone, Dane Clark and Agnes Moorehead, add a welcome touch of class, (Moorehead's terrific). It may not be in the same class as something like "Detour" but it's still so much better than a lot of big studio productions of the time.
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