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Originally a radio play by Lucille Fletcher, this taut drama centres on a bedridden heiress who, left alone in her apartment, tries to call her husband and overhears her own murder being planned. Fletcher opened out the screenplay just enough to allow beefy Burt Lancaster to share a crumb of the honours with Barbara Stanwyck, and to heighten the claustrophobia of the victim's bedroom by contrasting it with a murky outside world. Anatole Litvak directed this classic film noir, a real nail-biter, which earned Stanwyck an Oscar-nomination for her tour de force as the domineering, neurotically ill Leona, at the mercy of her self-induced helplessness.
Fletcher adapted her celebrated 22-minute, single-character radio play into an almost equally tense screenplay, still retaining many of the eerie sound effects. It has the added advantage of brilliant photography by Polito, which turns the bedroom in which the heroine is confined into a shadowy prison from which there is no escape. Stanwyck, unusually, is the victim, a whining paranoid heiress, suffering from a psychosomatic illness, who believes that her weak husband Lancaster is planning to kill her. In order to get the performance he wanted from Stanwyck, Litvak shot the sequence over 12 days.
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