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This solid psychological thriller is heightened by Bogart's subtle portrayal of a calculating wife-killer. A successful architect, Bogie falls in love with Smith, sister of wife Hobart. He has a leg injury that prevents him from walking. He heals sooner than the doctors expect and uses this to cover his murderous plans. His wife goes off to a mountain retreat, leaving Bogie at home alone to work. He follows her, meets her car on a mountain road, then strangles her and puts her into her car, which he pushes over a cliff. It roars downward into freshly cut timber and the logs cover her car in a strange configuration, similar to that of a giant tepee. Scurrying home, Bogie awaits the news of his wife's death but it does not come. He reports his wife missing, and then weird incidents take place. Although he pursues Smith, she rebuffs him for younger man Drake. Everywhere Bogie turns he meets Hobart's ghost. He smells her perfume and finds her handkerchiefs and other small effects. He traces a brooch to a pawn shop where he checks a ledger ostensibly showing his wife's signature; when he returns with a policeman, the clerk is gone, another is in his place, and the ledger shows no trace of the signature. Bogie begins to follow women dressed in his wife's clothes, women he sees only from behind. He begins to doubt his sanity and returns to the scene of the crime, climbing down the cliff to examine Hobart's car beneath the timber. It is there but her body is gone. Then flashlights flick on and he is bathed in light. Behind the lights are police and Greenstreet, psychologist and family friend who had suspected Bogart all along. Bogie had given himself away to Greenstreet after his wife's disappearance. The pyschologist asked Bogart to describe what his wife was wearing when she disappeared and he had mentioned that she was wearing a rose. He could not have known about the flower since it had been given to Hobart by Greenstreet after she had left her husband on her way to the mountain retreat. Of course she was wearing the rose when he murdered her. Bogart is led away by police, undone by his own clever machinations. The direction by Bernhardt is first-rate and the suspense is maintained throughout in a vehicle tailor-made for the magical Bogart.