Jean Parker is on death row, with hours left until her execution, with fiance Douglas Fowley the man who pulls the switch. Criminologist Lionel Atwill thinks she's innocent and that Marcia Mae Jones (who always wears a hat; where's she going?) know who committed the murder actually is.
It certainly is an interesting idea, even if the 'only hours to prove the condemned is innocent' plot is ancient. It's effective, though, and it's nice to see Atwill in a good-guy role. He played them occasionally over the years, but was always more in demand, especially among the cheaper productions, for player some sort of monster in human form. However, I dislike his constantly interrupting the flow of the story to tell us what is going on. This looks like a money-saving device on the part of the producers. All director Steve Sekely had to do was continue the camera set-up of him and a couple of other players at a table, narrating. It may have been cheap, but it interrupts the story flow, distances the audience from the action, and ultimately reduces the movie to about ten minutes of Marcia Mae Jones telling Atwill she'll tell him about the guy he thinks did it tomorrow (after her sister is dead) and Sam Flint as the governor in a diner eating hamburgers, not knowing about the confession that will stop them from shooting lightning bolts through Jean Parker.
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