This dark melodrama is unusual for the casting of Monroe as cold-blooded baddy, plotting to murder her new husband against the scenic backdrop of honeymoon mecca Niagara Falls. Goodis Joe Cotten and Jean Peters prevail, but not before Marilyn does her requisite song number in a sprayed-on dress.
The real star of this vertigo-like noir thriller turns out to be the beautiful Falls of Niagara which add a real sense of power and impending doom to a picture which inspires little of those must-be ingredients for the genre.