Thriller
Mystery
Directed by Albert Herman
1945
NR
58 min
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Dave O'Brien
Tony Woolrich
Jack Mulhall
Lt. Walsh
Kay Aldridge
Claudia Moore
Alan Mowbray
Cecil Moore
Frank Jenks
Egbert Egelhofer, aka Romeo
Edythe Elliott
Janis Buchanan
Milton Raison
Novel
Screenplay
Harry Reif
Set Decoration
Martin Mooney
Associate Producer
Albert Herman
Director
Paul Palmentola
Art Direction
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CinemaSerf
This had many of the makings of an intriguing little murder mystery with a good tight theatre set; an unpopular star of the stage and a menacing spectre who seemingly haunts the place... Sadly, we are delivered of a blandly written drama with a lacklustre cast treading well trodden boards to guide us gingerly through an equally drably developed story. Neither Dave O'Brien (theatre critic "Woolrich") nor Kay Aldridge (initially the prime suspect "Claudia") bring much to the screen in this. It's so very flat and unmemorable - and there is little doubt that their shenanigans will unearth the murderer. It's got a sort of end-of-the-war fatigue about it that I can't deny I ended up sharing in.