The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Blistering performances.

Joan Crawford plays the leader of a criminal gang who finds out she's going blind. Kindly doctor Dennis Morgan performs the operation that saves her sight and the two fall in love. Joan's insanely jealous boyfriend David Brian is none too pleased. Despite the title, Joan's character is pretty tame. Crawford and Morgan go through the motions here. Both were on their way out at WB. They have no chemistry together at all. David Brian is an actor I've never been too impressed with. He has a weak screen presence and seems more suited to supporting parts. Due to his friendship with Joan he was given big parts in three movies of hers. Most positive reviews of this film I've read seem to praise his performance. Guess we see things differently as I thought he was just hamming his way through a poor man's impersonation of a WB gangster. This is a forgettable potboiler that's only of note as the last film Joan Crawford did on her Warner Bros. contract. The whole thing feels like a leftover B picture from the '40s. Joan later said this was her worst film. I'm guessing she blacked out the '60s.

OK, so it's partly my own fault. But with a title like This Woman Is Dangerous and Joan Crawford in the lead, who wouldn't expect a noir movie? It starts off that way, but after 10 minutes it turns into a syrupy soap opera. So i'm sure there are plenty of fans of La Crawford's brand of melodrama out there who will eat this up and love it. And they will have no problem in accepting the crucial fact that all men who stare into Saint Joan's angelic eyes fall madly in love with her and will do anything, yes even commit murder to win her love. Me for one, i didn't buy it. I'm also not a fan of movies that feature self-sacrificing young and attractive doctors, especially if they have unbearably cute daughters with pigtails. Did i mention he was divorced? And that the pixyish daughter is immediately won over by Ms. Crawford? Boy, what a bit of luck for Our Lady On the Lamb! Sure is a swell setup to step into. If there only wasn't her no-good killer boyfriend, who spends the entire movie in a jealous murderous rage. But of course Joan is too honest and steadfast to sell him out for a cushy life with Dr. Wonderful. Or is she? Torn between two lovers, whatever will she do? If you're really interested in the answer, i can recommend this movie. If like me you couldn't possibly care less, avoid.

If it's true that JOAN CRAWFORD called this one of her "worst" films, then she is just as bad as judging her own work as Bette Davis was. Bette thought so little of "It's Love I'm After" which everyone thinks is one of the best screwball comedies of the '30s, starring Bette, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.If THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS sounds like a lurid melodrama, it is. But it's got a lot of good things going for it. First of all, the characters are an interesting bunch--including the two rough and tough Jackson brothers (DAVID BRIAN and PHILIP CAREY), DENNIS MORGAN sincere in one of his better dramatic roles as an eye specialist who treats Crawford and eventually falls in love with her, and a plot that keeps you wondering how the whole affair is going to turn out because Brian's character is such a hot-headed guy with a gun.Also, it never becomes sappy in the romance department nor does it have the soap opera flavor of many a Joan Crawford film. Instead, it's got an almost film noir quality about the sharp B&W photography, a good score, and other technical qualities that raise it above the norm for what looks like a low-budget Warner film. But the plot has enough interesting moments to keep viewers watching until the final shootout in a hospital while a surgery is being performed.David Brian seems to be relishing his tough guy role (which seldom varied during his stay at Warner Bros.), and Joan Crawford gets a chance to play out all her anxieties and frustrations with her customary skill. Her career at Warners was just about to come to an end because she was dissatisfied with the scripts she'd been given after making such a strong showing during her first few years with the studio.A good, steamy melodrama that manages to overcome the improbable story line by being directed in brisk, no nonsense style by Felix Feist, who knew how to keep the pace tight as the story builds toward a climax.

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.