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Even by the humble standards of Poverty Row, this is not a particularly interesting movie. No doubt it was shot in less than a week, like so many other ventures from the Row, but this one never looks sharp or racy, it always looks cheap. The script is simple-minded, the budget minimal and the actors are not only uninteresting but give every appearance of trying real hard to make their roles seem convincing – and that is really fatal! In movies, you must give an impression that you're not an actor at all but a real-live character who is acting out a real story. It seemingly doesn't require any effort to be convincing. The actor is convincing simply because he or she is a real person, involved in real events. Once you drop the mask, you're in trouble – unless you're a very skillful comedian like Bob Hope who could afford to step out of character and ridicule the events that were happening on screen. Alas, Leo Maloney is not a particularly charismatic hero. Worse still, the heroine, Josephine Hill, who amassed an astonishing 107 credits during her sojourn in Hollywood from 1917 through 1933, persistently over-acts and is unattractively photographed to boot. Whitehorse does well as Captain Attwood, despite being obviously miscast. Tom London, billed as Leonard Clapham, is unrecognizable as the villainous Ollie Summers. The perfect alibi? Even the title gets it wrong. Available on a good Alpha DVD.