Affair in Reno

John Lund and Doris Singleton star in Affair in Reno, a programmer from 1957.

Boomers will recognize Singleton as Caroline or Lillian Appleby, depending on the episode, Lucy's blind as a bat without her glasses friend on I Love Lucy.

Here she plays a female detective, hired to protect John Lund. He's brought $100,000 to Reno to dissuade a casino owner from marrying a young woman from a good family.

This is a light film with some comedy. Lund gives a breezy performance, and what I liked is how effective the female detective character was, getting Lund out of all kinds of scrapes. She knew her stuff!

Well, I was not so surprised with this one. Republic Studios were used to make those sort of mixed up of thriller, westerns, comedies...

I would say it was their trade mark; for instance features with cars and phones...Such as Roy Rogers B westerns...

Back to AFFAIR IN RENO, we can see a normal guy - John Lund - who arrives in the Biggest Little City in the world - Reno - with one hundred grands in his coat. A little bullion in bank notes given by a wealthy man to a casino owner so that he marries his daughter...

And our hero discovers that he has a bodyguard, designed by the rich guy to protect him against people with bad purposes, a bodyguard in petticoat. Nothing less...

You can guess the following. I will tell no more about it.

A good time waster. And a RG Springsteen film is always worth for anyone who loves B movies.