***SPOILERS*** It's when San Francisco débutante Nicki Collins, Deanna Durbin, saw a murder being committed while in transit to the Big Apple or NYC she tried her best to get the NYPD who,in it being the Christmas holidays, had much better things on their mind to sliver it. While trying to get famed mystery writer Wayne Morgan, David Bruce, to find the killer in a local movie-house where his fiancée Joyce Williams, Patricia Morison, was on the screen Nicki to her both shock & surprise saw a newsreel about the tragic death, he fell from a step ladder, of shipping magnet Joseah Waring! That was the man she saw murdered at the train stop by an shadowy figure!
It's when Nicki went to the Waring Estate in Long Island to check things out about the old man's demise she's mistaken for the old guys new flame night cub singer Margo Martin whom he left his entire fortune to. With old man Joseah Warings' relatives being left out of his will things start to heat up with all of them trying in one way or another to get Margo, or better yet Nicki, to give up her claim to her dead lover's money & personal property. As for Margo, the real one, herself she's later murdered at the night club that she works at by one of Waring outraged, in being left out of his will, relatives.
***SPOILERS*** The pretty Canadian Nightingale Deanna Durbin was at her best as she belted out songs like "Silent Night" & "Night & Day" as well as being the damsel in distress but it was the final few minutes of the movie that really made things matter in the reason for old man Waring's brutal murder. Not only was he knocked off but everyone who suspected he was in fact murdered, not that he died in an accident, was to be knocked off as well by his killer. It was Nicki who in finding out who the killer was that put her life in mortal danger. Not just by the killer but the Keystone Kops and her boyfriend mystery writer Wayne Morgan who kept screwing things up and almost made it possible for the killer to not only get away with his crimes but add Niki, as his latest victim, to them.
It's when Nicki went to the Waring Estate in Long Island to check things out about the old man's demise she's mistaken for the old guys new flame night cub singer Margo Martin whom he left his entire fortune to. With old man Joseah Warings' relatives being left out of his will things start to heat up with all of them trying in one way or another to get Margo, or better yet Nicki, to give up her claim to her dead lover's money & personal property. As for Margo, the real one, herself she's later murdered at the night club that she works at by one of Waring outraged, in being left out of his will, relatives.
***SPOILERS*** The pretty Canadian Nightingale Deanna Durbin was at her best as she belted out songs like "Silent Night" & "Night & Day" as well as being the damsel in distress but it was the final few minutes of the movie that really made things matter in the reason for old man Waring's brutal murder. Not only was he knocked off but everyone who suspected he was in fact murdered, not that he died in an accident, was to be knocked off as well by his killer. It was Nicki who in finding out who the killer was that put her life in mortal danger. Not just by the killer but the Keystone Kops and her boyfriend mystery writer Wayne Morgan who kept screwing things up and almost made it possible for the killer to not only get away with his crimes but add Niki, as his latest victim, to them.