This is an excellent film featuring Van Heflin and Marsha Hunt as a quirky "odd couple" team. He is Gordon McKay, a forensic investigator and she is Jane Mitchell, his assistant, who just happens to have a degree in chemistry. The chemistry between them is great, with some witty one liners - "cigarette me", "match me", "light me" . Hunt is always on hand to light his cigarette with a bunsen burner!!! To me, Marsha Hunt is a big key to the film's success. Never a big star, she was always memorable (even in a John Wayne Western "Born to the West" (1937)). Finding herself at MGM, she soon settled into a "B" film routine.Although as she said in an interview "At MGM there was never such a thing as a cheap picture. They were usually vehicles for up and coming talent".
When newly elected District Attorney Hunter Turnley is murdered, Jerry Ladimer (Lee Bowman) takes over as special prosecutor and is determined to find the killer. When the crime fighting Mayor (Samuel S. Hinds) is killed, Eddie (Eddie Quillan) a diner owner and someone who is getting fed up with having to pay protection money each week, often almost all he earns, seems an easy suspect. He was determined to see the Mayor that night to tell him of the corruption little shop owners like him have to put up with. Unfortunately a bit of his jacket is found near the Mayor's garage but his protestations of innocence convince Gordon that he is telling the truth. Gordon finds the real killer in an ingenious way but the real entertainment is the lively conversation between Gordon and Jane - they make forensics fun!!!!
Robert Blake is also seen as a child in a car.
Recommended.
When newly elected District Attorney Hunter Turnley is murdered, Jerry Ladimer (Lee Bowman) takes over as special prosecutor and is determined to find the killer. When the crime fighting Mayor (Samuel S. Hinds) is killed, Eddie (Eddie Quillan) a diner owner and someone who is getting fed up with having to pay protection money each week, often almost all he earns, seems an easy suspect. He was determined to see the Mayor that night to tell him of the corruption little shop owners like him have to put up with. Unfortunately a bit of his jacket is found near the Mayor's garage but his protestations of innocence convince Gordon that he is telling the truth. Gordon finds the real killer in an ingenious way but the real entertainment is the lively conversation between Gordon and Jane - they make forensics fun!!!!
Robert Blake is also seen as a child in a car.
Recommended.