Philip Friend was a Prisoner of War. During an escape attempt, some one told the Germans, and four of his fellow escapees were killed; Friend was blinded. After working for more than a decade with the War Crimes commission in a failed attempt to track down the traitor, the case is closed and Friend gets a job. One day, while visiting a fashion salon -- his perfumer-employer has worked out a cross-promotion deal with them -- he hears the voice he has been hunting for a decade and a half. With the aid of dress model Diana Decker, he goes searching for the man.
the idea of a blind man hunting an evil doer was popular in this era -- Edward Arnold had played a blind detective for MGM in a few movies in the early 1940s, and 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET, from a novel by Philip MacDonald, had been filmed the previous year. What makes this movie interesting is that fact that while Friend is hunting his man, that man is hunting for him.
It's an engaging movie, if a tad slow-paced, with some interesting camera work by Jimmy Wilson. I think that Miss Decker is not very engaging in her part -- her voice and deferential manner started to annoy me quickly. However, while that may have been the reason her career never hit the heights, it doesn't stop this movie.
the idea of a blind man hunting an evil doer was popular in this era -- Edward Arnold had played a blind detective for MGM in a few movies in the early 1940s, and 23 PACES TO BAKER STREET, from a novel by Philip MacDonald, had been filmed the previous year. What makes this movie interesting is that fact that while Friend is hunting his man, that man is hunting for him.
It's an engaging movie, if a tad slow-paced, with some interesting camera work by Jimmy Wilson. I think that Miss Decker is not very engaging in her part -- her voice and deferential manner started to annoy me quickly. However, while that may have been the reason her career never hit the heights, it doesn't stop this movie.