Wonderful character development!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Surprisingly low-key crime drama. It's Crawford without her usual emoting even with the many script opportunities. In fact, she almost walks through the part in what appears unengaged fashion. Maybe that's because of her contract dispute with Warners (IMDB), which she soon left. Anyway, she plays a gang moll specializing in bank heists, along with her wacko paramour Brian. Trouble is she's losing her eyesight and must go to handsome surgeon Morgan for correction, soon becoming dependent on him. So, the question is will she stay with her criminal past and Brian or will she open up to Morgan's respectable ways and his mounting interest in her.One trouble with star vehicles is they're often padded for the star's sake. Here, that appears the case, especially with the middle part and long after we've understood the conflicts. Anyway, director Feist shows more ingenuity with shadowy set-ups than he does with building suspense. Thus the promising final part lacks the tension implicit in the script. And catch that terrible piece of staging when the highway cop is blithely murdered. At least the travel trailer hideout amounts to an imaginative asset. At the same time, Brian overplays his tough guy role as though he's trying to compensate for his two stony co-stars. In plot terms, it also makes you wonder why Crawford has such loyal ties to him. At least one soft moment between the two is badly needed. At the same time, the usually personable Morgan seems especially bland, maybe because he too was wrapping up with Warners (IMDB). Thus, contract disputes could well be a factor in this disappointing production. In sum, the flick amounts to one in which no one seems particularly interested in the results. One thing for sure- it's a long, long way from the usual tight Warner's crime drama or even a trademark Crawford weepie.

This film begins with Crawford a gangster's girlfriend...and this gangster (David Brian) is insanely jealous of her. When it turns out she's going blind, the nutty boyfriend thinks that she is just plotting to run away from him. When the surgery occurs and she is cured, he assumes that she and the doctor are having an affair! In fact, she and the doctor are interested but Crawford puts him off because she loves him and knows that Brian will ultimately kill him if she reciprocates. It's like a soap opera and film noir combined.I think that either Joan Crawford's statement on IMDb that this was "her worst film" must either be taken out of context or Ms. Crawford had recently suffered a blow to the head, as THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS is a very good film. Additionally, late in her career she made some embarrassingly bad films (such as TROG and BERSERK). So how could this be the worst?! Perhaps Crawford was talking about being a bad time in her life or it was tough because after this film her contract with Warner Brothers was expired--but this surely is far from a bad film.Now I am not saying that this is a great or perfect film--it has a couple knocks against it. First, Dennis Morgan is just too young for her. I am not trying to be mean, but Crawford had been around Hollywood for almost 30 years--Morgan was simply too young and handsome to believe as a doctor who falls for this patient. Second, the plot about a woman going blind and needing this surgery does seem a tad contrived--though I found it pretty easy to accept it for what it was.The film excels in several ways. First, it was nice to see Crawford in a more vulnerable role. Too often, she played manish roles that almost seemed like caricatures (such as in JOHNNY GUITAR). Second, the ending is quite suspenseful and I loved the character of Crawford's antisocial/paranoid boyfriend. Thing about it--the doctor just restored Joan's sight and yet the crazed boyfriend wants to kill the doctor because he KNOWS that every man wants his girl! Good writing, very good acting--this film is one of Crawford's best from the 1950s.

This was Joan Crawford's final film under her Warner Brothers contract. She hated the film, but accepted it anyway to complete her agreement with the studio. It is not as bad as everyone thinks it is, but it is odd to see Joan as a lady gangster, going blind, and finding true love with the surgeon (Dennis Morgan) who restores her sight.

Joan Crawford's only reason for making "This Woman Is Dangerous," (a script that she thought was terrible) was that it would complete her contract to Warner Brothers Studios and she would then be free to go over to RKO and begin production on "Sudden Fear," (which would earn her an Academy Award nomination).