Navy man Mason is a womanizer who hatches upon a scheme involving defecting to the Russians and then suing a paper for libel . He does this to woo away Vera Miles from husband George Sanders. First of all it is often Sanders who plays the villian but here he merely plays absent for most of the film. A good third of the movie is just Mason and Miles on an extended date. She falls for him sort of, but I don't really know why. There isn't much to fall for except he's persistent. Which brings up another annoying quality in a lot of movies then and now , as long as the man is persistent even if he is pretty much a jerk he always get his gal. The plot is pretty ridiculous , there's no suspense and no laughs and especially no noir. Vera Miles looks terrific though. Seeing her here I can see why Hitchcock thought she could be his new glamour girl.