Una mujer peligrosa

Drifter Kane Richmond gets into a bar fight and then is rolled by the cops, despite the protests of police chief Arthur Loft. The town is corrupt, controlled by Wilton Graf. Richmond goes to Graf's home and demands his money back. Graf is amused and peels off the money, then offers Richmond a thousand dollars for a night's work, no questions asked. Richmond seems intrigued by the money, Graf's wife Adele Mara, and newspaperwoman Anne Nagel. She and her father, Harry Cheshire, are trying to clean up the town, but no one is interested.

Director Lesley Selander -- credited as 'Les Selander' -- seems to have misunderstood what 'film noir' meant, because the print I looked at was so dark that about a third of its 56 minutes looks absolutely black; if there isn't a 'real' light source, there's only blackness. Still, Richmond has the voice for noir, Miss Mara is a fine noir bad girl, Miss Nagel a good girl. With a few more sound effects, it might have made a good radio play.