Listening to a podcast about Val Lewton so thought I'd watch this again. Thoughts:
- lovely intelligent, treats audience smart, literate
- quite sexy: Simone Simon shows a bare back in a bath, Jane Rudolph is in a swimsuit, the whole plot is about sex
- some excellent performances: Simon is very good (lonely, little, scary, plucky) and Tom Conway is great fun as a lecherous shrink - Kent Smith and Jane Rudolph are dull but they have to be
- it's low budget yes but it's also a studio film so the photography is terrific, the sets, technical qualities
- very well done, stylish and well made.
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