What a low down, two-timing, dirty rotten dame Paula is! Janis Carter played her with such coolness and calculating calm that I kept hissing at her through the whole movie. Glenn Ford was such a patsy for her. Great movie!

Glenn Ford arrives in a Smalltown U.S.A. like he's already on the run in Framed, but he's just trying to outrun hard time. Well, as the title implies, harder times are yet to come. I have a fondness for Ford, and I find it particularly interesting that he doesn't fall as easily for his fatale (played by Janis Carter) as other Noir heroes tend to. He's too suspicious, too jaded, for that kind of thing. The bad guys' plan is teased as we go, enlivening our experience with mystery and deduction, and the twists come naturally. Carter is... some piece of work, let me tell ya. Their one mistake: Thinking our man Glenn Ford is the perfect patsy for their crime. As it turns out, situations are too fluid for that, even if Ford is, on the surface of it, a drunk, a drifter, and technically friendless. Perfectly entertaining for what it is, and I was pre-sold, as I usually am, by Glenn Ford's participation.