"Our love affair was too hot" coos lounge singer Nickie, heating up
quickly when young Dr. Reed beckons her to his table. Her menacing combo
leader Floyd warns the handsome physician off, but keeps his cool - his
"boomerang baby" returned after each of three brief, lucrative
marriages. The news that she's giving the physician's huge diamond a
trial run (just to make Floyd jealous), kills Dr. Reed's father. Because
naive Dr. Reed zooms from struggling to loaded, Nickie seizes his
proposal. On their honeymoon voyage Nickie has a fling with an army
officer, and when her drunken, seasick cuckold stumbles into them, their
fight ends with the lover overboard. Blackmailing her husband for
murder seems to deal Nickie an unbeatable hand. Dr. Reed looks ready to
chuck in his cards, but the jilted pianist is hard to back off.
Stars:
Alfred Hitchcock,
John Gavin and
Diana Dors
|
