Graham Greene scripted this moody thriller from a John Galsworthy play about lovers who have three weeks together before the man must turn himself in for murder. Olivier is wonderfully pitiable as the good-hearted ne'er-do-well who accidentally murders Leigh's husband and then is spared when a sorry beggar is picked up for the crime. Three weeks of torment while the other man stands trial pass in a Hitchcockian manner, as the New York Times noted: "(I)ncidental business (is) dropped in with ominous suggestiveness. The mean streets of London, a fog-shrouded alley, night prowlers, a crowd on a Thames excursion boat are given genuine solidity. The painful details of a court trial are worked through with cumulative nervousness. The whole fabric tautens imperceptibly until the final...snap." Made in 1938, the film was released in 1940 after Gone With the Wind made Vivien Leigh a household word.