'' is a 1948
Film Noir directed by
Jean Negulesco for
Twentieth Century-Fox . The story of Lily Stevens (Lupino) who takes a job as a singer at a roadhouse - complete with bowling alley. When Lily dumps the owner Jefty (Widmark) for his boyhood friend Pete Morgan (Wilde), problems begin. They only get worse when Jefty is rejected after proposing to Lily, causing Jefty to go on a murderous rage.
Lupino sings the classic
Johnny Mercer song "
One For My Baby (and One More For The Road) " in the film.
Writer Spencer Selby calls the film an "interesting melodrama that has a crisp forties look and slowly builds to a noirish climax."
Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference says the film "impresses first of all with its sharp dialogue exchanges between the characters and the bizarre look of the interiors" referring to the at once modern and rustic road house.
