One of Hollywood's latest wrinkles is the practice of slapping together dozens of new producing units to operate under the guise of independent companies, mainly as a tax reduction scheme. One of these post-war babies is an outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula.

They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns out to be a dream, and everything must be threshed out again from the beginning.

Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan are a wooden and rather uninteresting pair of principals, and as a minor villain Peter Lorre plays another in a long line of roles which, in retrospect, seem all about the same. As chief heavy, a newcomer named Steve Cochran does little but scowl menacingly, in a picture wherein action moves at the pace of a snail and suspense is kept down to a minimum.