Police forensic expert Van Heflin (Gordon) and his assistant Marsha Hunt (Jane) are given a couple of high profile murders to solve whilst lawyer friend and Mayor hopeful Lee Bowman (Gerald) also gets involved and romances Marsha. The film is set in the world of politics and gangster corruption and breezes by at a snappy pace. You know who the villain is but it is the journey as to how he is caught that keeps you watching.
The actors are good even though I had to warm to Van Heflin as he didn't seem very nice at the beginning. And I didn't like how he kept taking Marsha's cigarettes - no-one likes a scrounger. However, he had me supporting him by the end of the film. There are some good sequences involving Heflin as he deduces things logically and we feel he is going to get a realization at any point. Same with Marsha. Is she going to crack the case? She certainly puts her foot in it on a couple of occasions. In terms of plot mystery, we only get one real red herring and that is the title of the film. It doesn't mean anything ........ O.J. Simpson may spring to mind.
Watch out for a hilarious way of retrieving evidence from hair.
The actors are good even though I had to warm to Van Heflin as he didn't seem very nice at the beginning. And I didn't like how he kept taking Marsha's cigarettes - no-one likes a scrounger. However, he had me supporting him by the end of the film. There are some good sequences involving Heflin as he deduces things logically and we feel he is going to get a realization at any point. Same with Marsha. Is she going to crack the case? She certainly puts her foot in it on a couple of occasions. In terms of plot mystery, we only get one real red herring and that is the title of the film. It doesn't mean anything ........ O.J. Simpson may spring to mind.
Watch out for a hilarious way of retrieving evidence from hair.