Brian Donlevy and Natalie Wood aren't too bad. But otherwise... Horribly corny acting (especially Edmund O'Brien - dreadful) on the basis of a horribly corny and 50s-moralistic script. Natalie Wood pointlessly but oh-so-conveniently gets her skirt ripped so that she can spend half the film flashing thigh only just short of her underwear. Raymond Burr's overdone infantilized kidnapper/killer, the most tragic and interesting character in the film, gets taken away, clearly to the electric chair, but obviously we're not supposed to be interested in or care about that - because we're made to focus on and take joy in the destructively insensitive and overprotective cop/father finally seeing the light and making up with the hapless boyfriend. Pathetic!
But, despite all that, still quite watchable :-)
But, despite all that, still quite watchable :-)