This is the sombre melodrama which introduced Cliff Robertson, subsequently winner of the 1969 Oscar as best actor for his performance in Charly, to film audiences. Joan Crawford brings her own brands of melancholia and acting skill to the central role of Milly, a lonely spinster, who falls for the extremely suspect Cliff. Lorne Greene, of Bonanza fame, gets a rare unsympathetic role as Robertson's father and handles it very well while Vera Miles, later to feature in Hitchcock films, and Ruth Donnelly, as the heroine's rasp-tongued friend, offer good support in this heady but occasionally affecting melodrama.

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