Review of Backfire

As mysteries and dramas go, Backfire held my attention and I was genuinely interested in the four (4) main characters, Actor Gordon MacRae plays an injured war veteran named Bob Corey, While recovering in the hospital from a broken spine he is nursed back to health by the gorgeous Virginia Mayo who plays his nurse and subsequent girlfriend named Nurse Julie Benson, Bob;s army buddy and best friend is a guy named Steve Connelly played by veteran actor Edmond O'Brien. While in the hospital Bob gets a visit from his buddy Steve who shares some information with Bob then suddenly Steve disappears. While still heavily sedated to relieve his pain, Bob gets another mysterious visitor who we subsequently find out is a woman named Lysa Radoff played by Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors.

As the mystery grows deeper and Bob exits the hospital with a good bill of health he is told by the local police to leave the mysterious disappearance of his buddy Steve to the police to solve. The two attractive female leads in Virginia Mayo and Viveca Lindfors and Gordon MacRae are all considered suspects in the disappearance of Steve Connelly who is wanted as a suspect in a recent murder invloved in gambling.

The film kept me intrigued until the so called mystery fell flat as an upside down cake and I must say overall the film was great but the ending was a bit disappointing for what appeared to be a good mystery film until the proverbial THE END was posted.

I give it a better than average 8 out of 10 IMDB rating