This is a smashing piece of cinema with Kay Walsh ("Charlotte"); Margaret Lockwood ("Freda Jeffries") and Kathleen Harrison ("Emmie") all on great form as the women involved in the machinations of the manipulative, murderous Dirk Bogarde "Edward Bare". When his elderly, wealthy, wife (Mona Washbourne) unexpectedly dies, he is disappointed to learn from her rather sceptical lawyer "Philip Mortimer" (Robert Flemyng) that the will doesn't provide quite as well for him as he had hoped - so he sets about finding a successor - and he alights on the streetwise "Freda" who makes it quite clear that what's her's is, well, staying her's - even after they marry... Not quite content with that arrangement, he decides that she might just have to have an accident, too. At this point, a stranger - "Charlotte" - arrives on the scene, ostensibly looking to buy a house and our mystery starts to unfold. Bogarde is on top form, and Lewis Gilbert manages to cleverly intertwine the characters whilst building a gentle sense of menace that runs pretty much to the end (though I found that a little bit flawed). Good stuff.