NOTES: Although the good people at Alpha Video obviously think otherwise, cult favorite, Dwight Frye, has only a small, insignificant role in this picture, let alone a chance to be "chilling, as the murdered man's anxious nephew."
COMMENT: On the credit side, the movie is atmospherically photographed by one of Hollywood's top cameramen, Leon Shamroy, of all people! And the star is the lovely, spirited, ultra slim June Clyde. Against these assets, however, are a large range of debits including the creakily slow-paced, laboriously heavy-handed and ploddingly pedestrian dialogue and its direction; the promising but rather flaccidly developed storyline; and the acting which – apart from Miss Clyde's spirited performance – can only be described as jaded or disinterested. The absence of background music is also a distinct debit. What a shame the wonderfully sinister music used under the credit titles wasn't also employed in the movie itself!
COMMENT: On the credit side, the movie is atmospherically photographed by one of Hollywood's top cameramen, Leon Shamroy, of all people! And the star is the lovely, spirited, ultra slim June Clyde. Against these assets, however, are a large range of debits including the creakily slow-paced, laboriously heavy-handed and ploddingly pedestrian dialogue and its direction; the promising but rather flaccidly developed storyline; and the acting which – apart from Miss Clyde's spirited performance – can only be described as jaded or disinterested. The absence of background music is also a distinct debit. What a shame the wonderfully sinister music used under the credit titles wasn't also employed in the movie itself!