Okay, I'm on a rant at the moment with stupid and arrogant characters so it's just as well I decided to come here next.
Stanwyck really is a great actress and it's exciting watching her in something that is just plain old-fashioned scary. Added to which I found myself absolutely despising her character in this which is always the mark of a great star.
A bed-ridden woman one hot night tries to contact her husband by telephone, only to fall into the centre of a murder plot between two men on the other line.
Practically unable to walk she is absolutely terrified about the call she has heard but cannot get the police to co-operate.
Throught the night she speaks to various different people and we have some flash-backs to show how she got ino the situation she is now in, and really she is a deeply unpleasant woman! Burt Lancaster plays her husband, who's secret meeting with an old flame drives Barbara mad with jealousy (considering she was the one who stole him off the woman to start with!) and so we wait through the night, although not much time really elapses to see what happens at the end...
Note to self, must watch more Stanwyck movies!
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