Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Stanwyck's metamorphosis from indolence to hysteria is brilliantly executed.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Perhaps if you have a special interest in foul folks and morbidities, you will thrill to this Hal Wallis picture. Frankly, we squirmed -- and not from dread.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
rotten:
To make a movie of Lucille Fletcher's classic radio play was really to betray its best idea: that sound, not sight, is the truly paranoid sense.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
2 Jan 2008
fresh:
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy.