The film that reunited Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins (the latter fast approaching the end of her major film days), after 1939's The Old Maid. Warners expected that the off-screen friction and enmity between the two stars would help the plot about two childhood friends who become deadly rivals. And they were right. All the best scenes here are when the two are together and Davis, in particular, relished the scene in the film when Hopkins' character becomes hysterical and Bette has to slap her across the face. The film rather loses its way in its latter stages, righting itself at the end with a splendid final scene between its two stars.


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