Director: RICHARD L. BARE. Original screenplay: David Lang. Photography: Carl Guthrie. Dialogue director: John Maxwell. Art director: Ted Smith. Music: William Lava. Film editor: Frank Magee. Producer: Saul Elkins.
Copyright 12 February 1949 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. No New York opening. U.S. release: 12 February 1949. U.K. release: 3 May 1949. Australian release: 13 April 1950. 7,790 feet. 86 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A crime melodrama, involving blackmail, theft and murder.
COMMENT: Director Richard Bare certainly opens this film at a fast pace. But the construction of this film is rather similar to that of "Impact", with Miss Malone looking very demure as the sub-heroine and Miss Mayo disappearing from the film altogether for a 45-minute stretch.
However, David Lang's script has a fair share of suspense and Elisha Cook gives yet another of his sterling characterizations.
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