Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

" . . . but women don't," hapless "Dick Mason" (Humphrey Bogart) tells his shrink-in-hangman's-clothing, "Dr. Hamilton" (Sydney Greenstreet). Warner Bros. made CONFLICT primarily to allow Greenstreet to get back at Bogart for out-smarting him in THE MALTESE FALCON, CASABLANCA, and several other films. If Warners had paired James Cagney and Bogie for 100 flicks, they'd have forced the latter to bite the dust at least 99 times (as they loved the YANKEE DOODLE DANDY). Since it was harder for the Brothers and Church Censors to identify with Greenstreet than Cagney, they did not mind letting Bogart win the majority of his conflicts with the Fat Man. Given that Fundamentalist Societies essentially give the husband of an oldest sister "dibs" on her younger female siblings, there'd be little cause for CONFLICT here if this story took place in such an environment. Unfortunately for Dick, it doesn't. And women actually DO come back sometimes, if they have a little help from their friends.

This Film-Noir has the Typical Odd Feel Often Found in the Genre. It is Aided by the Bogart as Villain Character as the Audience Feels Uncomfortable as Bogey is not Only a Murderer but Hobbled by Physical (a cane and a limp) and Psychological Maladies (guilt, hallucinations, anxiety).There are Odd Looking Side Players like the Rotund Sydney Greenstreet and a Host of Others Like a Hobo, Landlady, and Pawn Shop Owner that are All Strange in Appearance and Add to a Mysterious and Foreboding Feel to the Film.The Nagging Wife has a Scene at the Beginning that is So Uncomfortable for Both Bogart and the Audience that the Off Kilter Ambiance is set in Motion and Continues throughout the Movie. Nothing and No One Ever seems Comfortable and as Things Move Along as the Murderer Becomes Unhinged by Unsettling Events its All Nerves and the Forties Infatuation with Psychoanalysis and Freudian Deduction.The Movie also Looks Nightmarish with Rainy Mountain Roads and Expressionistic Displays that give the Appearance of a World Slightly Out of Whack. This one has the Feel of a Val Lewton Film or some might even say Hitchcock, but one Thing for Sure it is an Odd Role for Bogart, although He did Play the Villain Occasionally, this Film Nevertheless is Underrated and Delightfully Different.

An architect (Humphrey Bogart) murders his nagging wife (Rose Hobart) in hopes he can be with her younger sister (Alexis Smith). After the murder things start to happen that make him question whether his wife is really dead after all.Entertaining film despite a plot that's easy to get ahead of. It's helped by some good acting and decent direction. Similar in some ways to The Two Mrs. Carrolls, which also had Bogie plotting to kill his wife so he could marry Alexis Smith. Of the two movies, this is the better, helped largely by the presence of Sidney Greenstreet. Bogart also gives a less over the top performance here than in the other movie. Both films have something else in common: they both sat on the shelf for two years after filming before they were released.

On their fifth wedding anniversary a man and wife find out their marriage is a big mistake, and he's convinced her sister is in love with him. If only he wasn't already married.....Since this is a thriller he does the logical thing and pushes his wife off a mountain cliff. But then he gets signs that she may still be alive. Is he losing his mind or is he just a sloppy killer? The whole movie hinges on the fact that the viewer must choose either option as being true. Unless there's a third option, and just about anybody who has ever seen or read a mystery story will figure out soon enough what that is. Oh yes, Sydney Greenstreet's character is a psychiatrist, now what on earth would that have to do with any of this? I wonder...... Apart from the rather obvious plot there's isn't much suspense to make this an effective thriller.Bogart's character seems more annoyed than scared by any of the strange goings-on, like finding his dead wife's jewelry in her safe. And when he finds out his wife's sister rejects him, so the whole murder was in vain he's more unpleasantly surprised than shocked. The ending can't really come as a surprise to anyone. This movie is not without merit, and Bogart and Greenstreet are worth seeing in any movie, but i had higher hopes for this.