Gloomy film noir about a henpecked hubby with an unnourished ego as a Sunday painter, who becomes easy pickings for a manipulative vamp. Fritz Lang's wartime Hollywood remake of Renoir's between-wars La Chienne (The Bitch) offers a fascinating contrast in directorial personalities. Renoir is convivially more interested in the characters and their colorfulness, Lang mercilessly more interested in the tightening fist of fate. Lang's could reasonably be called the more gripping movie, with the more powerful finishing punch. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay. (1945) — Duncan Shepherd
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