Afterward, he fell asleep in the theatre during the screening of a film - a drawing-room mystery about a stolen pearl necklace.Flynn was also trying to expose Jordan""s criminality and run for the office of Sheriff himself..She was more smitten and attracted to the young handsome, psalm-singing Captain Cummings from the next-door mission.Plot SynopsisDay 1: Friday Early MorningThe film opens with shots of a bleak and decayed urban environment in an unnamed (the opening sequence was filmed in Cincinnati, OH), smoggy midwestern locale - this establishes a documentary, nitty-gritty feel to the film.Plot SynopsisThe film opens, with one of its few color scenes, with a closeup of a hand lighting votive candles with a match in a pre-war Polish Jewish family""s home on a Friday night Sabbath.(An uncredited James M.Cain wrote some of the script.)Director Jacques Tourneur, who collaborated with legendary producer Val Lewton, was well-known for his subtle horror films, includingCat People (1942)andI Walked With A Zombie (1943).