When blonde, 16-year-old, Sonya Lang confronts real-estate man Graham Kirby with the fact that she’s pregnant by his sleazy half-brother Burwell, that’s bad. When it turns out that her condition is the result of a particularly degrading rape, that’s worse. As her father says, “What wipes out that stain is blood.”　 This is quintessential James M. Cain, giving us characters whose emotional in...