An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Behind the Green lights is briskly-paced police procedural that stars Carole Landis and William Gargan, who plays a police lieutenant who sifts through a byzantine web of conflicting clues as well as resisting an obvious bribe from a politically motivated newspaper editor to book Landis' character as the murderer of the private eye. Gargan, who is excellent as the sympathetic policeman, keeps Landis in a back room at the police precinct in order to shield her from the sensation-hungry news reporters. It's quite a gripping yarn with not much glamour or humour - it seems more of a sincere film about corruption and politics creeping into police station.
Behind the Green lights is briskly-paced police procedural that stars Carole Landis and William Gargan, who plays a police lieutenant who sifts through a byzantine web of conflicting clues as well as resisting an obvious bribe from a politically motivated newspaper editor to book Landis' character as the murderer of the private eye. Gargan, who is excellent as the sympathetic policeman, keeps Landis in a back room at the police precinct in order to shield her from the sensation-hungry news reporters. It's quite a gripping yarn with not much glamour or humour - it seems more of a sincere film about corruption and politics creeping into police station.