"The story of a man who murdered himself...and lived to regret it!" A melodramatic thriller with a deliciously downbeat ending, this was the debut production of Paul Henreid, normally a romantic lead, who must have enjoyed casting himself against type, twice, in the dual role of a calculating mobster and the playboy psychiatrist whose identity (and facial scar) he adopts after he murders him. John Alton's cinematography draws out the low-key menace of Los Angeles locales, but the cynical show-stopper is Joan Bennett, as the psychiatrist's secretary, when she announces "The older you get, the worse things get." After that it's really no surprise that a successful shrink can die a mug's death.