Often under-rated, this perhaps suffers from the fact that its most
experimental quality (it was shot in 3-D) can no longer be appreciated.
Also, like Rope and Rear Window, it's quite determinedly confined to
one location, and so misunderstood to be a wooden, unadventurous
adaptation of a stage play. Rubbish - one look at Andrew Davis'
dissipated remake suffices to see what happens when you open the front
door. Milland is a superbly dry, cautious villain, and the scenes
between him and Williams' detective are like the very best bits of
Columbo: the suspense is in the catching, not the killing.
