“A Freudian melodrama in which Michael Redgrave, obsessed by the link between architecture and death, recreates rooms in which women have met violent ends. Joan Bennett becomes the potential victim who attempts to cure him. The film is linked with Hitchcock's Rebecca (cited by Lang) and Spellbound, and to a contemporary American obsession with psychoanalysis, but the interest in an anticipatory tomb for a dead lover is manifest in Destiny and The Indian Tomb. An Expressionist influence is evident at several points.”