Three Steps North

Lloyd Bridges returns to Amalfi. He was stationed there during the war in the Quartermaster Corps; then he was in prison for stealing. Now he's out with a dishonorable discharge, and looking for the loot he buried. Things get in his way: not only his old girlfriend, Lea Padovani, but the money is missing, and the fellow who has been spending freely is dead, and Bridges is a suspect.

The two leads keep up the pace of dialogue and performance, and there are some lovely shots of Amalfi, but there's a leaden pace to the rest of it, raising my hackles in a get-on-with-it way as the police get involved, and apparently random strangers. Clearly this is an attempt to tangle the mystery, to offer more suspects, but director W. Lee Wilder and editor Ruth Totz seem content to let scenes ramble on without much happening.