Review of Deadly Duo

Deadly Duo (1962)
5/10
"Five hundred thousand dollars is half a million."
19 January 2022
Irene Tedrow is a rich and powerful woman. Unhappily, her son married Marcia Henderson, an entertainer in a sister act; Miss Tedrow did not approve. The son died, but not before they had a son. Now she hires Craig Hill, who was almost disbarred for his former partner's fronting for the Mob, to go down to Acapulco and get her to accept half a million dollars for the boy. She says no. This annoys her twin sister -- also played by Miss Henderson, and her husband, Robert Lowery, who see a way to collect the money themselves, with a spot of forgery and murder.

It's an okay very cheap B movie produced by the imitable Robert Kent, writer of more than ninety B movies and producer of more than forty. Mr. Hill suggests Robert Cummings, and Miss Henderson has some fun playing two roles in two wigs. Lowery plays his role as lazy and querulous. The result is a decent time-waster.
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