****SPOILERS**** Under presser to come up with a hit show or else lose it's top sponsor and be thrown off the air the crime show "Crime of the Week's" top writer Don Newell, John Forsythe, gets himself involved in a murder who's victim is the show's actress Paula Ranier, Kathleen Hughes, who just happened to be blackmailing him. It was Paula who was having an affair with Newell for some six months who threatens to tell his wife Louise, Marcia Henderson, unless he coughs up $2,5000.00 to have her keep her mouth shut.
As things turned out after having it out with Paula in her apartment Newell leaves in a hush only to later find out, by coming back, that she was murdered! Not only that it's the show's research editor Henry Hayes, Edward G. Robinson, who was also having a affair with the late or murdered Paula Ranier who seems to have an idea for the show's breakout episode that in fact involves Paula's murder! Knowing that he's the #1 suspect in Paula's murder Newell gives the job of script writing the episode to Hayes who, as we soon see, knows a lot more about Paula's murder and who murdered her then he lets out.
***SPOILERS*** Filmed in 3-D the movie doesn't comes across that well on the flat screen with the now 2-D not 3-D effects that are put into it. Besides that major flaw it's still a top notch murder mystery with a really solid surprise ending. With Paul's killer trying everything to cover his tracks in getting Newell framed in the end it's modern TV technology that does him in. Not knowing that he's on TV the killer admits his crime, a crime of passion and revenge, that everyone in the TV studio sees and hears in living black & white including the cop in charge plainclothesman Bob Nelson. It was by the killer in feeling confident and at the same time shooting off his big mouth that ended up with him getting shot instead!
As things turned out after having it out with Paula in her apartment Newell leaves in a hush only to later find out, by coming back, that she was murdered! Not only that it's the show's research editor Henry Hayes, Edward G. Robinson, who was also having a affair with the late or murdered Paula Ranier who seems to have an idea for the show's breakout episode that in fact involves Paula's murder! Knowing that he's the #1 suspect in Paula's murder Newell gives the job of script writing the episode to Hayes who, as we soon see, knows a lot more about Paula's murder and who murdered her then he lets out.
***SPOILERS*** Filmed in 3-D the movie doesn't comes across that well on the flat screen with the now 2-D not 3-D effects that are put into it. Besides that major flaw it's still a top notch murder mystery with a really solid surprise ending. With Paul's killer trying everything to cover his tracks in getting Newell framed in the end it's modern TV technology that does him in. Not knowing that he's on TV the killer admits his crime, a crime of passion and revenge, that everyone in the TV studio sees and hears in living black & white including the cop in charge plainclothesman Bob Nelson. It was by the killer in feeling confident and at the same time shooting off his big mouth that ended up with him getting shot instead!