THE FILE ON THELMA JORDAN (1949) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Robert Siodmak
Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly,
Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober,
Minor Watson, Barry Kelley, Kasey Rogers
An assistant D.A. and a woman who fears her house might be burglarized slip into an adulterous affair. Then the woman's house is burglarized, the woman's indicted for murder, and the assistant D.A. gets assigned to prosecute the case. So it's complicated, and more than a little implausible, and like "The Furies", released the following year, we're expected to believe that Barbara Stanwyck would fall head-over-heels for Wendell Corey, who's a good actor but the world's least charismatic leading man. It's noir, so it does not end well, but nobody ever came out of a fiery car wreck to die more beautifully than Barbara Stanwyck.
