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Title: Not a true "noir" film
Review: I don't think this film should be labelled as "film noir". Its main characters are extremely wealthy Manhattan residents who overdo the "rich snob" act. Most of the scenes take place in apartment sets that look more appropriate to an Astaire film. While Gene Tierney is truly beautiful to watch, she fails to convey much of a sense of a femme fatale. When you first see her acting in a Clifton Webb flashback, she is way too "goody two shoes" to support a noir film. Speaking of Webb, neither he nor Vincent Price is at all convincing as a man who might successfully compete for a beautiful woman's attention. Frankly, both of them act more like caricatures of gay New Yorkers than as romantic leads. You might as well write a movie script that has Felix Unger as the prime suspect.
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