Mr. District Attorney

Dennis O'Keefe is straight out of law school. He comes to LA to wangle a job on District Attorney Stanley Ridges' staff, and promptly annoys newspaperwoman Florence Rice and gets a crook a mistrial, Then he gets assigned to a case that has gone nowhere for years, involving Peter Lorre, the missing cash from an old bank robbery, and Minor Watson, who is running for Ridges' job and looks to be a shoo-in.

It's the first movie version of the popular radio show, and a pretty lively one. It has lots of gags in the relationship between O'Keefe and Miss Rice, both of them excellent farceurs, gradually moving into a crime and action sequence, with an exciting chase. It's directed by William Morgan, one of those directors who had been editors, and thus could 'cut in the camera' for an economical shoot. His career was never particularly distinguished, but he does a good job here, with a good script. Definitely worth your time.