Background
The source of the film was the Marty Holland novel of the same name. She also wrote another story that was adapted for the film noir screen: The File on Thelma Jordon (1949). According to the British Film Institute, "Hardly anything is known about Marty Holland except that, he, was a she called Mary, who wrote two or three best selling pulp novels and then in 1949—to all intents and purposes—vanished, there being no further record of her at all."
The filming locations were in Orange, California.
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