(NOIR) Sudden Fear - 1952 ****

Excellently shot. A film noir through and through. Joan Crawford plays a gullible playwright named Myra who falls in love with sleazy actor Lester whom she originally rejected as the main star of her newest play.
Although believing they are meant to be together, Lester has other plans, hoping to murder her and take her money, with a little help from his old girlfriend Irene, played suitably sourly by Gloria Grahame.
In most ways this is the perfect noir, but although Joan Crawford was very good in her part, I can't help feeling by now that the roles she was choosing at this point should be for younger starlets.