Pretty dang solid cop meets femme fatale drama. The dialogue-free sequences are especially well-directed. I also tend to be a sucker for movies that spend so much time exploring one location. Also noteworthy is Novak's character, who after all ends up being in it for love instead of money, which is both super adorable and perhaps unique to the murderous female trope. Wikipedia has a surprisingly large "critical response" section for such a minor noir, and the consensus seems to be that it's good but derivative of Double Indemnity specifically. I don't really see it, and in any case it's far superior to Double Indemnity from where I'm sitting.
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