Harriett Craig is lying and manipulative with an upper-class husband. They have a couple of servants and a big old house. She falsely tells him she can't have children and tells his boss he has a gambling problem to keep him from getting a promotion that will require he go away on business trips.
It wasn't bad. Wendell Corey plays a nice guy who's befriended the widow and her son who live next door.
I'm not sure how I should feel about a housewife as villain in a movie made in 1950 when women faced terrible oppression. It wasn't as explicitly sexist as some other Joan Crawford movies.
My mother keeps wanting to watch movies but it's hard to find anything. It has to be something inoffensive but she doesn't like old movies and they have to grab her immediately or she wants to turn them off. I was surprised she sat through this thing. She seemed to like it in spite of some problems. It was dialog-laden and the dialog wasn't terribly realistic. There was nothing subtle.
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