James Agee described this 1947 film noir:
“A skillful telling of a pretty nasty story about a man (Robert Young) who loves money and women almost equally well and finds that they get in each other's way. Young first falls for Jane Greer, but abjectly drops her when his rich wife (Rita Johnson) yanks at the leash. She yanks him from Manhattan to Los Angeles, and he tries to play safe in the new job she buys him. Unfortunately, Susan Hayward glides out of a filing cabinet, and in no time at all he is a dishonest man again.... Hitchcock's producer Joan Harrison and associates have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Young and Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man and wife; Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads.”