Robert Taylor came back from the war and this was his first film. He was delighted to work with Kathryn Hepburn, whom he had great respect for. She considered him to be a much underrated actor, with more talent than he was given credit for. He proves it in the film about a wealthy industrialist, who has a mysterious past and a missing brother, played by a young Robert Mitchum. He meets Ann (Hepburn) and marries her in a whirlwind. She is so in love that she doesn't see some of the strange goings on. He skulks around, goes away on strange trips, and becomes irrational when anyone speaks of his brother. He suspects that she is falling in love with Michael (Mitchum) even though she never met him. What she finds is that Alan is really a psychopath and may even be a murderer. He follows her, accuses her, yells at her, and tells her that if she leaves him he will kill her. She runs, he chases her on horseback, and in the end, as he tries to kill her, his horse tramples him to death, leaving her to find a new life with the brother. Robert Taylor was always at his best as the bad guy. The studio system never used him well, and put him in a lot of bad films. His talent was generally wasted, what a shame. Vincent Minnelli used him and crafted the part so that Taylor could show a different side, not the pretty boy that he was always hounded by. Wonderful use of shadows and black and white photography. A must see.