: Though some contemporary 1946 reviews found her performance to lack conviction, modern viewers often praise her as a "morally conflicted" and "sympathetic" ex-con who provides a necessary contrast to Martha's coldness. Production Trivia

: Director Lewis Milestone briefly left the set during production to support a set decorators' strike; Byron Haskin took over direction for several days without receiving screen credit.

: During filming, Barbara Stanwyck famously warned Van Heflin not to do his "coin-rolling" trick during her lines, threatening to "upstage him" by hiking up her skirt to adjust her garter.

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: This was the screen debut for Kirk Douglas, who played against his future "tough guy" type as an alcoholic, weak-willed husband .

: Critics describe her as a "ruthless matriarch" and a "hard-boiled, lustful vixen". Reviewers note that she is a more complex and "humanized" version of a femme fatale because we see her childhood trauma first.

: Many reviewers struggle to categorize the film, calling it a "melodramatic noir" or a "sturdy melodrama-cum-film noir". It is praised for using genre conventions to depict post-war moral decay.