And the award for best actress portraying an insane female in film noir goes to.....IDA LUPINO as Lana Carlsen in "They Drive By Night"...let us pause for a moment and hear Miss Lupino in her award-winning role: "The doors made me do it...yes it was the doors...AH HAH HAH HAH!"....I believe somewhere it was heard told that even Bette Davis and Joan Crawford paused for a moment from their respective whirlwind cocktail of psychoses and whispered to each other- 'That bitch is crazy'... but that's ok Collin Wilcox, your award for craziest female on a witness stand as Miss Mayella Violet Ewell in "To Kill A Mockingbird" is still intact- and that's all for today in the news of FILM NOIR- good black & white to all....

Ida Lupino owns this.

It's a good Bogart movie, but at around 90 minutes long it literally feels like several different movies and storylines crammed into one flick. Good performances all around, I just think they should have stuck to more of a hard-working rags-to-riches story instead of a major detour into a courtroom drama storyline.