Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sadly Over-hyped

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of Barbara Stanwyck's finest performances as invalid Leona Stevenson, who by chance overhears a hitman and his client over a crossed line while trying to contact her husband (Burt Lancaster). A woman is about to be killed somewhere in the vast city outside her stately dwelling and bedridden Leona has a devil of a time phoning around for anyone who will take her seriously.So sets the scene of Anatole Litvak's stylish film noir, based on the highly acclaimed play by Lucille Fletcher. The Stevenson's courtship and now shaky marriage is conveyed via a series of flashbacks involving use of the telephone itself. Gripping stuff.

This bit of alleged suspense has zero suspense. It is so predictable that it isn't funny.1948 was a bit early for this kind of tripe, but even then the neo Nazi propaganda machine of Hollywood was diligent in making sure the darker haired woman in any movie would get killed off. It got even more blatant later, particularly in the seventies when most viewers were so drug crazed, and today most of those who rate here are among those brain washed Nazi die hard dorks.We know everything that will happen long before it happens, so it's just an ordeal for masochists and sadists to enjoy, and as we know, those human demons love to push their hatred down everyone else's throats, and they guffaw about it like the red necks they are.Just another sick movie for sick devil worshipers.

A wonderfully suspenseful movie. A hypochondriac woman lies in bed. Upon making a phone call, she inadvertently overhears a couple men planning a murder. She knows the time it will be committed. She does what she can but with so little information, the police can do nothing. She keeps making calls. Soon we are in flashback mode as she searches her brain for any inkling of what is going on with her husband who should have been back by this time. It's a matter of trying to figure out who the victim is going to be. We have the advantage of knowing the possibilities. Things get more intense as the time approaches. A real spellbinder for the ages.

Anatole Litvak directed this suspenseful tale that stars Barbara Stanwyck as Leona Stevenson, a rich but neurotic heiress who is now bedridden, and married to Henry(played by Burt Lancaster) who loves her but resents having his ambitions stifled by her father, and is getting tired of her hypochondria. One night, Leona picks up the phone and is horrified to overhear a sinister, cross-wired conversation involving two men discussing the imminent murder of a woman. Leona frantically tries to convince both Henry and the Police of this, but is unable to, and will come to learn that the murdered woman is to be her... Based on a successful radio play, film is quite interesting, as its plot unfolds via flashback, with mounting tension leading to a truly chilling end...