The read
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes40%
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
26 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael GordonDirector
- Ivan GoffScreenplay
- Ben RobertsScreenplay
- Frank SkinnerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lana TurnerSheila Cabot
- Anthony QuinnDr. David Rivera
- Richard BasehartHoward Mason
- Sandra DeeCathy Cabot
- John SaxonBlake Richards
- Ray WalstonCobb
- Virginia GreyMiss Lee
- Anna May WongTawny
- Dennis KohlerPeter Cabot
- Lloyd NolanMatthew S. Cabot
- Elizabeth ChanChinese Dancer
- John WengrafDr. Kessler
Stills
Themes
based on play or musicaldisposing of a dead bodyneo-noirmurder plotabusive husbandadulterous wifeplot twist