What Price Crime

Someone has stolen a lot of guns and killed watchman Lafe McKee at a government warehouse, so it's up to G-man Charles Starrett to crash his car into Virginia Cherrill's. No, that's a coincidence, because her brother, Noel Madison, is a night-club owner, a prize-fighter owner and the suspect for the gun-running operation. The plan is for Starrett to go undercover as a boxer, get Madison to buy his contract and find out all about the operation.

It's the usual mix of good points and bad ones that Gower Gulch producers got in their movies. The story is a good if standard one; Al Martin's dialogue is banal, at best. Starrett and Madison deliver their lines well and Miss Cherrill poorly. Al Baffert, whom Starrett fights, looks like a well-conditioned professional and no one holds their hands up to defend themselves in the ring.

Director Albert Herman tries an interesting visual hook start the movie; the raid on the government warehouse (which we know it is because there is a small, neat sign reading "Government Warehouse") is shot showing just the shadows of the actors. After that it settles down a standard plot, though there are a nice couple of twists along the way. The result is a very watchable B movie.