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Witness to Murder (Chester Erskine; United Artists) might be called a desk sergeant's holiday. Barbara Stanwyck dials the police in the middle of the night to say that she just saw a woman strangled in an apartment across the street. But when Detective Gary Merrill reaches the scene of the supposed crime, there is nobody there but George Sanders, and he looks like a man who never strangled anything more than a friendly impulse.

Can Barbara have been dreaming? Or worse, can she no longer believe her eyes? She can, of course, but not until her doubts, and George's machinations, have brought her under "psychiatric observation''-a procedure that consists, in this picture, of a lot of bright needles and a few dull questions. In the end. the producers (apparently not sure that murder all by itself is bad enough to make a man a villain) arrange that Sanders shall also be a megalomaniac, an ex-Nazi and the author of a neo-Nietzschean book.

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