Fun, '40s-style Warner Brothers melo-thriller, with twin-sister Bette Davises conniving against one another and one ending up dead. Assuredly directed by her old cigarette-lighter, Paul Henreid, Bette essays the farfetched plot contrivances with style and snap, and she's helped by solid supporting work from Karl Malden, Jean Hagen, Phil Carey, Estelle Winwood, and Peter Lawford (third-billed, but he doesn't show up for well over an hour). Photographed by Ernest Haller, her favorite cameraman, she looks convincingly fortysomething, and the Los Angeles exteriors are a valuable time capsule. Also, wonderful work from Cyril Delevanti, as the wealthy Mrs. De Lorca's faithful butler-we don't realize just how faithful. Everything, from the Bette-as-twins device to Andre Previn's noisy Max Steiner score, seems to hark back to an earlier, happier Warner Brothers. But it's a hell of a good time.