I like this film, but I admit that the details of the workplace are a bit confusing. This movie has one of my favourite endings ever. Barbara Stanwyck was top-notch in the leading role. I liked Burt Lancaster as well.I have heard both radio plays - the one starring Agnes Moorehead and the one based on this movie. I enjoyed both radio plays.
You don't like Barbara Stanwyck? Yikes! Different strokes for different folks. She's one of my favourite actresses! Very talented lady.Sure the story is far-fetched. That's how I love my mysteries. The more far-fetched, the better.
On the other hand, we do not find out until the very very end that that's what happened, so it's not like it ruins the enjoyment of the whole movie.
I've seen lots of films, and this movie has one of my favourite endings ever.
I agree that the ending is good. Very dark ending for a movie during this time period. To have a "good" character die at the end is rare.As for me, I am always thrilled when Stanwyck is killed. I just wish it had happened sooner
Someone hates Barbara Stanwyck, I guess it was bound to happen some time in the last 80 years. ..
I was just thinking that maybe the fact that Leona overheard the conversation between the two killers wasn't all that coincidental. The plan had been arranged in advance and the hubby knew that his wife would be in bed. Maybe he did have the home phone set up to where the killers were stationed. I'm not sure if this would have been possible, but maybe the husband somehow arranged for the killers to have this conversation so that she would overhear it and so that she would be very scared. It would have to have been set up so that, when she picks up the phone, she overhears this dialogue. I'm not sure if this could have been managed back then (or even now, for that matter). Just a thought.