Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris’s work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
“Fritz Lang’s bleakest American film—a corrosive noir that strips romance down to cruelty and humiliation.”

J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
“A savage portrait of male delusion and moral rot, rendered with icy precision.”