"Wendell Corey always seemed to play goofy guys in the movies. Wimps, actually, and this role is no exception." Here he's Leon Poole, "a bank clerk with thick glasses" who heroically gets clunked on the head during an attempted robbery, and turns out to be the inside man on the heist. After his wife is killed by detective Joseph Cotten's policemen, Poole, from prison, plans his revenge on Cotten's wife Rhonda Fleming. "...a wife for a wife...This movie really got to me when I first saw it and I was ten years old. Especially the milk bottle shattering (splattering blood and milk all over the kitchen wall) and all the pots and pans falling off their hooks when Poole guns down Otto. Also the creepy stalking scene with Corey disguised as a woman as he follows Fleming. It's not a complicated movie but somehow serious, believable. Corey is clearly a nutcase...a man who doesn't need anybody else, doesn't want help, and so he's legitimately dangerous...A solid job all around, with perfect flat '50s photography. Nothing poetic, just the straight goods." --Barry Gifford