After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.

• DirectorRobert Florey
• Release21 November 1945
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration1h 18m
• Budget$471,000
• Revenue$1,110,000
• Rate
  

  5.8
  15 reviews
• Productions

  Warner Bros. Pictures