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Acting
Richard Basehart's trembling repression vs. Audrey Totter's spectacular cruelty.
Cinematography
Contacts as identity weapon—optical obsession shot like fetish.
Direction
Berry stages domestic hell as claustrophobic trap.

Director
John Berry
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