If you can get past the script’s reliance on coincidences (a just-released prisoner aboard a train happens to ask for a light from the man who framed him, this same prisoner’s long lost daughter happens to find him drunk on a street and takes him home, etc.), Riccardo Freda’s Il tradimento (US: Double Cross) is an engaging Italian noir with strong neorealist influences that tells the story of one man’s trial for murder of the same suspect twice 15 years apart. Amedeo Nazzari stars as successful engineer Pietro Vanzelli who one night drives home his drunken associate Renato Salvi (Vittorio Gassman), who has made clear his designs on Pietro’s wife Clara (Caterina Boratto), but after dropping Renato on his front steps, the man vanishes, assumed murdered, and Vanzelli is charged, convicted, and sent to prison for 14 years. When he gets out years later, as battered as the Italian postwar landscape, Vanzelli discovers that his wife is dead, Salvi is still alive, and his grown daughter Luisetta (Gianna Maria Canale) is working as a governess, but is forced to resign by the patriarch after the son takes an interest in her, sending her back on the streets where she is forced (especially by her rent-seeking landlady) to resort to prostitution. Vanzelli’s attempts to find his daughter and fend off Salvi’s attempts to ruin his life again comprise the rest of the film. Cinematographer Seraphin creates plenty of nice-looking B&W compositions using the light from street lamps, open doors, neon signs outside windows.