“Lewis Milestone’s only film noir is an organic continuation of the visual qualities he had honed since the silent era. His signature pelting rain, low-key lighting, menacing urban skylines, and airless interiors are now in service to a script by Robert Rossen that explores the theme of corruption through power” (Eshan Khoshbakht, Il Cinema Ritrovato). The film stars a brazen Barbara Stanwyck in the lead role, flanked by Kirk Douglas as her guilt-ridden husband, Van Heflin as a gambler, and his new girlfriend, played by Lizabeth Scott, and is set in an American industrial town.