Desafio al destino

This is a nasty story about a quite orderly ambitious and very talented young scientist who runs into bad luck in the shape of a woman, who happens to be the wife of his employer billionaire, financing projects like Apollo for the moon. She is not happy with him although she has everything including a lovely little daughter, and our man runs into her as she is trying to commit suicide parking her car in a railway crossing being dead drunk. He saves her, and there it starts - he should never have done that. Although he gets warnings, he gets involved with her to the degree of psychosis, so he is willing to do anything for her and does it with very serious consequences - his tragedy is that he in his love never again can control himself nor his life but just has to follow the hole way of his consistent delusion. Jeff Hunter makes the role very well, she is no better than she should be, Dana Andrews as the elderly billionaire husband is very much Dana Andrews, while the one who saves the film is Viveca Lindfors as the psychiatrist. She is always beautiful, always makes a great appearance and is an ideal actress in her cool beauty, and thanks to her the film is bearable, although you must have serious objections to the intrigue, allowing him to totally lose all sernse of self preservation. It is a neo-noir but lacks the stamina and convincing flow of the classical noirs of the 40s. The stoyt couldn't end otherwise, it is consistently logic all the way, and the two women that betray him couldn't do otherwise either, being as they are. He only has himself to blame for his stupidity in all his brilliant genius. "Do you have brains, Einstein? Use it!" He doesn't, or that is where he fails in going too far in using it for his uncontrolled needs of desperation instead of coolly working on reasonable detachment just for ordinary human survival.