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‘Ida Lupino doesn’t appear onscreen until half-way through director Nicholas Ray’s jolting, divergent noir, but right from her ethereal entrance she casts an essential spell over the whole project. Robert Ryan plays a violent city cop exiled upstate to assist with a murder investigation. On the hunt in the wintry, mountain landscape, he comes across the remote home of a blind woman (Lupino) and what begins as ferocious thriller becomes an almost mystical meditation on loneliness and redemption.’ – UCLA Film & Television Archive