For a good 95% of this Republic crime drama, everything is direct and to the point. But the writers have to rescue the hero because after all, Edmund Lowe once played Philo Vance, one of the great detectives of the earlier part of the 1930's. But here, he's a murderer, and even if the audience is rooting for him, the ridiculous twist the writers take makes them the major villain, not Lowe or Paul Fix as Nick Romero, an old prison mate of Lowe's who intends to spill the beans that Lowe is really an escaped convict. This would certainly ruin his status in town, and Lowe comes up with an elaborate murder scheme, ultimately framing someone else.
Irene Hervey, Henry Wilcoxin and Charles Lane co-star in this B picture which utilizes Lane for bizarre comedy relief as an attorney who seems to have taken his method from Groucho Marx. This does have some good points about it, but there is a bizarre twist in the conclusion that had me wanting to turn into Kathy Bates as she ranted about a car going off in a cliff in a serial that she recalled in "Misery". The writers expected that the audience would be dim enough to accept it, but 80 years later, it just doesn't gel with this audience of one.
Irene Hervey, Henry Wilcoxin and Charles Lane co-star in this B picture which utilizes Lane for bizarre comedy relief as an attorney who seems to have taken his method from Groucho Marx. This does have some good points about it, but there is a bizarre twist in the conclusion that had me wanting to turn into Kathy Bates as she ranted about a car going off in a cliff in a serial that she recalled in "Misery". The writers expected that the audience would be dim enough to accept it, but 80 years later, it just doesn't gel with this audience of one.