The audience is led on a path that ends with a unemployed ex-sailor hanging himself in a fleabag hotel he just checked into. The one detective that has some good forensic skills and plan good smarts thinks otherwise. The audience knows some of the details as to who did kill the ex-sailor but not why.
Robert Douglas played some very big bad guys in "The Flame and the Arrow", "Ivanhoe", "The Prisoner of Zenda" with Stewart Granger, and "The Adventures of Don Juan" with Errol Flynn. In this film he is a wise-cracking Canadian (to explain the accent) that works out step-by- step how and why and who killed a relatively innocent and innocuous young man in his town of LA.
There are some "CSI" and "NCIS" moments of scientific skills used to explain evidence items. And this was 1949! A good film with some good character actors, one of whom is Alan Alda's dad, Robert Alda as one of the bad guys.
I like good actors whether they play "good" guys or "bad" guys. But the ones who play bad guys always seem to say that they have more fun. Enjoy this movie with a well know bad guy playing the lead good guy and how he uses his head, his personality and excellent voice to make viewing a very pleasurable experience.
Robert Douglas played some very big bad guys in "The Flame and the Arrow", "Ivanhoe", "The Prisoner of Zenda" with Stewart Granger, and "The Adventures of Don Juan" with Errol Flynn. In this film he is a wise-cracking Canadian (to explain the accent) that works out step-by- step how and why and who killed a relatively innocent and innocuous young man in his town of LA.
There are some "CSI" and "NCIS" moments of scientific skills used to explain evidence items. And this was 1949! A good film with some good character actors, one of whom is Alan Alda's dad, Robert Alda as one of the bad guys.
I like good actors whether they play "good" guys or "bad" guys. But the ones who play bad guys always seem to say that they have more fun. Enjoy this movie with a well know bad guy playing the lead good guy and how he uses his head, his personality and excellent voice to make viewing a very pleasurable experience.