Following the success of 1947’s A Double Life, in which Ronald Colman played a murderous Broadway actor, Rosalind Russell took her only trip into Dark City as Valerie Stanton, a revered Broadway actress who accidentally kills her producer (and former lover) during an argument. Valerie’s thespian talents help cover up the crime, but when her archrival (played by Claire Trevor) becomes the prime suspect, will Valerie’s guilty conscience prevail? As with A Double Life, the film plays with the concept of actors having to act their way out of a crime, and the talented cast rises to the occasion. Russell white-knuckles her way through one of her strongest performances, while Sydney Greenstreet and Leon Ames excel as the leading investigator and aforementioned producer, respectively. A wonderful, if rarely screened, backstage thriller.