There were a lot of live television anthology series in the 1950s and both the episodes in this movie could have have been good episodes. Both lack movie quality production values and cinematography.
The nice things is watching Edward G. Robinson, Marsha Hunt, Alan Reed (later voice of cartoon Fred Flintstone) and Eddie Albert doing some fine acting. Ben Hecht does not appear to be very good at directing, but the actors help him out by trying to punch up the material.
The first half/episode is a mild "Who Done It" that satirizes the Broadway Theatre. It is no way in the ball park of "All About Eve" "The Saxon Charm," and "Sweet Smell of Success," but it draws some blood as a light murder mystery.
The second half/episode "Lady of Sin" has Eddie Albert as a roguish Hollywood Agent and Alan Reed as a typically tyrannical movie studio boss. They both milk the comedy nicely.
I had been reading Anita Loos' autobiography "A Girl Such As I," and she mentions that she turned Ben Hecht's first movie idea into a screenplay for Douglas Fairbanks. The plot revolves around a 9 year old writer who sells a script called "Lady of Sin" to a movie studio who think its quite sophisticated. Loos talks about how she wrote her first scripts when she was quite young (around 23 actually) and the people at Biograph Studios, thought that she was a sophisticated older woman. When four years later, when she met the studio heads for the first time, her mother accompanied her and they all thought her mother had written the scripts. At just 4'11," Loos still looked like a teenager. The studio heads, including D.W. Griffith were shocked and astonished when they realized it was the daughter and not the mother who had written the 100 plus scripts they had bought.
Clearly, Ben Hecht, just exaggerates what happened with Anita Loos and D.W Griffith here.
Ben Hecht's daughter actually does a fine job as the brat of a writer here, especially given that Hecht was not a great director.
To sum up, two amusing stories, but with poor production values worth and bad direction, but worth watching for the good writing and good actors.