I'm giving this one star to even out the current 6.5 rating it definitely does not deserve. Maybe Dennis Morgan fans came here and rated - and to his credit - Dennis Morgan carried this move,along with the minor role of the great actor Jack Carson. This screenplay should have been flushed down the toilet. It's a rewrite of The Animal Kingdom from 1932 with Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy and Ann Harding. Ann Sheridan does the Harding part here - and Ann Sheridan does a HORRIBLE job. It's like watching paint dry. Ann Harding was a "laid back" actress, but she conveyed her passion from the screen in a tremendous and unprecedented way. Maybe somebody told Sheridan "be laid back like Harding was" and it failed, I don't know. But boy nothing can beat the sexual manipulation that played such a large part in the 1932 pre-code original , nor the interplay between Howard, Loy and Harding. This movie was way too long - was disjointed - the "liberal" newspaper part of the plot doesn't play well today - the paper seems like it's supposed to be a kind of Washington Post - which most Americans hate as fake news now. And was Sheridan a photographer? Because she suddenly became a writer at the end of this movie! Sheridan's friend was played by Jane Wyman - another great supporting part that was better than the main actors - but she disappeared in the film like she'd fallen down an open sewer grate. I only watched this to see if they brought all the loose, poorly written threads together for the same ending line as Animal Kingdom - and they did. Don't waste your time on this one - watch 1932's The Animal Kingdom!