The unexpected dramatic impact of this Bing Crosby film can hardly be over-emphasised. Crosby, in a rare serious role, gives the finest performance of his screen career as the grasping, blame-dodging, out-of-work Frank Elgin, a middle-aged Broadway has-been. This tremendously powerful and moving film version of Clifford Odet's play won Oscars for Grace Kelly, as Best Actress (she's really excellent as Elgin's downtrodden wife) and writer-director George Seaton, for Best Screenplay. Bing was ironically only nominated for an Oscar, having won the award for a much lesser performance 10 years earlier in 'Going My Way'. A winner all the way.


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