Within an anguished, emotional melodrama, Joan Crawford emerges stalwart in the sympathetic part of a lonely spinster who marries a younger man and only later realizes that he is mentally disturbed. Cliff Robertson, in an early role, lends a kind of raw madness to the young husband, traumatized in a former marriage when he found that his wife and father were lovers. When these two figures from the past (played by Vera Miles and Lorne Greene) return to haunt him, he suffers a breakdown. The focus is on Crawford as she hangs in there, first trying to cure him with love and then risking losing him altogether by having him committed. Good fifties-psychiatry fare, alternately overwrought and genuinely moving in the expressionist manner of both Crawford and director Robert Aldrich.