Lee Patterson is a popular crime reporter/broadcaster on the trail of a story about a man arrested for manslaughter, on VE Day, released from prison a few years later, who might be hooked up in a robbery of 20,000 pounds with the dead man. He's also got an eviction notice for non-payment of rent, a pretty wife in Paula Byrne who's left him yet again, a supervisor in Colin Gordon who's worried about being sued, an ad in the personals seeking information on the ex-con, and someone following him. Things start turning around when he gets responses to his ad, but the people tell him the man is dead, and then they either disappear or get murdered.
None of which make sense, particularly being broke and being a popular broadcaster, but Patterson is a single-minded fellow when he's got a story, and so he keeps at it. The result is the equivalent of a police procedural, and the settings seem ordinary, form barbershops to untied pubs, to sites around London where the rubble is still being cleared away from the War. Montgomery Tully gets some nice performances out of his actors, particularly Gordon, and a short turn by the supposed dead man's widow. I think the script lays it on a little thick, but it certainly kept my attention throughout.
None of which make sense, particularly being broke and being a popular broadcaster, but Patterson is a single-minded fellow when he's got a story, and so he keeps at it. The result is the equivalent of a police procedural, and the settings seem ordinary, form barbershops to untied pubs, to sites around London where the rubble is still being cleared away from the War. Montgomery Tully gets some nice performances out of his actors, particularly Gordon, and a short turn by the supposed dead man's widow. I think the script lays it on a little thick, but it certainly kept my attention throughout.