SOUTH OF PANAMA is a low rent spy thriller yarn from 1941. It has the usual exotic locations and a seemingly endless supply of villainous gang members out to turn the screws on our rather dog-eared hero, who suffers a case of mistaken identity in the first scene and thereafter finds himself pursued. Think Hitchcock on a low budget and you'll be right; there's a femme fatale thrown into the mix, along with lots of serial-style escape sequences and scene changes. One aspect of the film, the black manservant who supplies endless comic relief with his overreactions to the appearances of corpses and the like, seems to come straight out of the 'old dark house' genre of filmmaking.
Review of South of Panama
