This trite story actually had a good basic idea back of it, but that intriguing plot line was very poorly developed. Also not helping to make the movie anything like a success, was Jerry Hopper's very mediocre direction. I always wondered where Jerry came from. Now, thanks to IMDb, I now know that he started his movie career from scratch. He first worked as an uncredited assistant editor, and then somehow managed to move into directing in Paramount's short subjects division in 1946 with "Golden Slippers", a little number with only one claim to fame, namely that it was filmed in Technicolor! Would you believe that nearly ten years later, this little movie's only tangible asset is also its engaging Technicolor photography. True, it does have a meaty but totally wasted cast led by Charlton Heston, who had slipped from his pinnacle in "The Greatest Show On Earth", but was soon to hit the big time again with "The Big Country" and "Ben-Hur".
