*Spoiler/plot- 1951, Pier 23, The famous detective, O'Brien gets mixed up with crooked wrestling referee, an equally corrupt area owner, and a murderous wrestler over some lost prize money stolen and hid away. Second O'Brien case involves a murdered cop, and a ultimate film noir major element a double-crossing 'dame' play for keeps.
*Special Stars- Huge Beaumont plays hard bitten detective Dennis O'Brien. Mike Mazuki plays the grappler wrestler baddie. Ann Savage plays the fem-fatal in the second case.
*Theme- Life can throw you some curves and some of them are on a bad tempered dame.
*Based on- Radio play of Louis Morheim.
*Trivia/location/goofs- Takes place in San Francisco. Some lost seldom seen film noir of the early 50's. DVD has some nice special features on film noir.
*Emotion- A fun and quick paced detective film in the noir style. Interesting to see and hear the dead-pan but colorful dialog of the detective story. Very reminiscent of TV's fast talking cynical SGT. Joe Friday of "Dragnet'. Lovely to see some of the ladies of these stories get some real meaty roles for them to chew-up-the-scenery over. Fun to see early film of the consummate late 50's TV's sitcom calm dad, Huge Beaumont play another wise-guy character role not seen before but thoroughly enjoyable to watch.
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