Directed by Anthony Mann
Medical researcher Nora Goodrich is inventing a new form of anesthesia. Her female lab assistant has designs on her fiancé and stages an accident, which disfigures the heroine. Thanks to another accident, Nora assumes the identity of a dead woman and exacts her revenge. The wacky and frenzied plot mirrors the heroine, whose film noir character conforms to director Anthony Mann’s typically overreaching and morally ambiguous hero.
Republic Pictures Corp. Producer: William Wilder. Screenwriter: Mindret Lord, from a story by Anne Wigton and Lewis Herman. Cinematographer: Robert W. Pittack. Editor: John F. Link. Cast: Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler, Ruth Ford.
35mm, b/w, 68 min.
Preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive.
