"The Two Mrs. Carrolls" is also one of several murder/mystery films and "film noirs"—such as "A Double Life" (1947), "Experiment Perilous" (1943), "Gaslight" (1944), "Laura" (1944), "The Paradine Case" (1947), "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), "Rebecca" (1940), "Scarlet Street" (1945), "A Woman's Vengeance" (1947)—made in the 1940s in which a portrait (usually of a woman) plays a major role, by obsessing a character, by depicting a clue to a mystery, by summoning up bad memories, by acting as a catalyst for action, or through some other means.More specifically, "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" positions the image of a woman as emasculating.