Reviews

In the Ross Macdonald tradition, a hangdog loner private eye finds himself a murder suspect after the girl he was hired to look after is killed on his watch while he's sleeping in a nearby room. Harry Guardino plays the hapless detective who spends most of the movie searching for the killer(s) and trying to determine why she was killed. The story takes the detective into a world of treacherous international high finance and suspect building-development deals involving the high and mighty and their secrets. Along the way we are introduced to a series of interesting characters who slowly propel the story to a surprise ending that some viewers will have guessed long before Guardino. All in all, a nicely done little movie of the week with fine location shooting - I'm guessing at that because the DVD I watched is poor quality - marred at times by swirling transition scenes popular with many directors in the late 1960s and 70s. I wish Universal had issued a general release for DVD of this movie.