The plot here starts in a court room where Cooper testifies and gets an innocent man found guilty in court. The man screams that Cooper lied and he did it. Of course that would be much too easy. Meanwhile, after the verdict, Ratcliff (Cooper) tells Mrs. Ratcliff (Deborah Kerr) that he has made a "killing" on the stock market and is going to invest the money to make them rich, going into business with a large investment.
From there the time passes and 6 years later Kerr finds a blackmail letter addressed to hubby that accuses him of being guilty. He hasn't done anything and has not acted on the letter. Now the Black-mailer shows up. And then....
Cooper is luck this one is in glorious black and white because he is not looking well. That's because all his cigarette smoking has caught up with him and he has advanced Cancer. He is taking an oxygen mask between takes. At times it shows, and this would be his last film. Legend has it he was not told it was Cancer until after filiming was over in 1960. Still his death did not help the film when it was released and it lost money.
Another thing which did not help, this film came out about 7 months after Hitchcocks Psycho. While this film is good, when you try to compare it with that masterpiece, it definitely falls short. In this era, 7 months later Psycho was still playing in movie houses. While this film is okay (Kerr has a strong role), it being advertised with the audience being admonished not to tell anyone the ending, well that had been done in 1959's Anatomy of a Murder. This film was not good enough to overcome these handicaps and sell tickets in the box office.
It is worth a look now especially if your a Cooper or Kerr fan.
From there the time passes and 6 years later Kerr finds a blackmail letter addressed to hubby that accuses him of being guilty. He hasn't done anything and has not acted on the letter. Now the Black-mailer shows up. And then....
Cooper is luck this one is in glorious black and white because he is not looking well. That's because all his cigarette smoking has caught up with him and he has advanced Cancer. He is taking an oxygen mask between takes. At times it shows, and this would be his last film. Legend has it he was not told it was Cancer until after filiming was over in 1960. Still his death did not help the film when it was released and it lost money.
Another thing which did not help, this film came out about 7 months after Hitchcocks Psycho. While this film is good, when you try to compare it with that masterpiece, it definitely falls short. In this era, 7 months later Psycho was still playing in movie houses. While this film is okay (Kerr has a strong role), it being advertised with the audience being admonished not to tell anyone the ending, well that had been done in 1959's Anatomy of a Murder. This film was not good enough to overcome these handicaps and sell tickets in the box office.
It is worth a look now especially if your a Cooper or Kerr fan.