Just about Bette Davis' last throw as the queen of tragic melodrama, playing twin sisters, just as she had two decades earlier in A Stolen Life. Poor sister Edie, incensed by the discovery that rich sister Margaret had double-crossed her years ago to marry the man they both wanted, shoots Margaret and takes her place in her mansion home. A whole cauldron of troubles is soon upon her. The difficulty of imitating her sister's handwriting is resolved in typically gruesome latter-day Davis fashion, but there are other problems: Margaret was a non-smoker while Edith craves a drag, The dog which hated her sister licks her hand. And so on. At every shock and pitfall, the Davis eyes bulge with horror like some silent screen diva. The lips, jaggedly slashed with lipstick, represent perpetual misery (there is indeed precious little cheer in the film). And Andre Previn's music crashes its grating, tongue-in-cheek accompaniment. The director here is actor Paul Henreid, with whom Bette shared romantically famous cigarettes in Now, Voyager.

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