unrequited love...the script...is basically a static affair that rarely escapes from its sets or the scenarist's verbosity. Suspense is only fitfully generated and then quickly dissipated...Gary Merrill contributes a thoroughly seasoned and convincing portrayal...Emlyn Williams adds a professionally polished characterization...and Anthony Steel and Barbara Murray are adequate...However, Another Man's Poison is strictly Bette Davis' meat. She is permitted a wide latitude of histrionics in delineating the designing neurotic who is as flinty a killer as any we've seen in the recent past." In his review in New Statesman and Nation, Frank Hauser wrote "No one has ever accused Bette Davis of failing to rise to a good script; what this film shows is how far she can go to meet a bad one." References Notes External links Another Man's Poison at BFI Another Man's Poison at TCMDB 1951 films 1951 crime drama films British crime drama films 1950s English-language films British black-and-white films British films based on plays Films directed by Irving Rapper Films shot at Nettlefold Studios Films set in Yorkshire Films scored by Paul Sawtell 1950s British films