A PI investigates a priest's murder.
Lee Bowman
Gilbert Archer
Marguerite Chapman
Patricia Foster, AKA Laura Browning
Edgar Buchanan
George Bradford
George Macready
Matthew Stoker
Lee Patrick
Susan
Jonathan Hale
Captain Griffin
Elisabeth Risdon
Catherine Walsh
J. Edward Bromberg
Ernst Helms
Miles Mander
Dr. Marko
Moroni Olsen
Bishop Martin
Mary Field
Bradford's Secretary
Katherine Emery
Mrs. Stoker
Bess Flowers
Diner at Bianca's
Robert Ryan
Detective Regan (as Bob Ryan)
Director
Lothar Mendes
Novel
Jo Eisinger
Screenplay
Wilfred H. Petitt
June 1, 2024
6
This is really all about the last ten minutes as we quite entertainingly finish off this otherwise unremarkable drama. "Gilbert" (Lee Bowman) is a red-top journalist who loves nothing more than a good old dose of salacious rumour-mongering. His life takes a more serious turn when his friend is murdered. The man was a priest, and the mystery deepens when we discover that his two bibles are being sought by the menacing "Stoker" (George Macready). Why? Well one of them contains a code that will lead to the secret hiding place of a priceless Da Vinci painting. The police suspect that maybe "Pat" aka "Laura" (Marguerite Chapman) is somehow involved, so she and our gossip-pedlar join forces hoping to find it (and some romance) first, or at least to stay alive! It's a bit better than your standard afternoon feature this and that's almost entirely down to the sparingly featured Macready and to Edgar Buchanan's contributions as "Bradford" - and I did quite like the carefully choreographed cellar-denouement. Nope, you'll never remember it, and it could probably lose twenty minutes of waffly preamble, but it's not bad.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00