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I think this film was intended to be intentionally obscure, incomplete (featuring the equivalent of a "Tune in Next Week for..." trailer) and indeed a spoof on contemporary detective thrillers, but I really had very little idea what was going on most of the time.

I suspect that it is also lampooning 'arty' composition; scenes are shown from strange angles, the characters' faces are almost never seen, and the opening reel tells its story almost entirely via images of various feet.

Unfortunately, my attention span is rather limited for melodramas where I can't deduce even a vestige of common thread between the assorted events. Someone may have been killed, at the beginning; a mysterious package is involved; a crowd of seamen seem to be stalking someone. A man picks up a woman under a lamp-post.

To discover the solution, and indeed the crime, the hapless viewer must tune in next week (once the editor has managed to insert the relevant intertitle the right way up, anyhow...)