Camp treatment of a Cornell Woolrich suspense yarn. On what can't have been a very lavish budget, director Mark Reichert works up an immaculate film noir surface, but the viewer is under constant strain to pretend as if the 1940s lamp shades, ashtrays, curtains, peignoirs, etc., are adding up to a movie. Part of the difficulty is that the New York smart-set haughtiness towards American middle-class values tends to grow old fast. Deborah Harry, lead singer of Blondie, is in perfect accord with the prevailing point of view, but is otherwise not too annoying, except maybe to fans of her music who had hoped for something more in character than her last-minute coif-conversion from mousy brown to platinum blonde. Dennis Lipscomb is her bedevilled husband (and well matched as to cheekbones), and Pat Benatar is a late walk-on. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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