Police shrink Kent Smith thinks that the mugger who is terrorizing women only by snatching their purses then slashing them on the cheek is sex-o psychotic. His pal, the very young James Franciscus plays a cabbie who asks Kent to come see his pregnant wife's sister who seems troubled. She works as a "hostess" in a local dance hall but is moody and troubled. Kent has a talk with her but can't get her to spill anything. Meanwhile the mugger/slasher keeps striking and Kents girl-friend, a cop too, sets out to set herself up as bait. The mugger attacks her but he gets away when her back-up is waylaid by a drunken sailor. Now, the mugger has struck again only this time he's killed his victim. And the victim turns out to be the cabbie's wife's troubled dance hall sister AND she was 3 months pregnant. The plot really thickens now.
Seems Kent's gal pal cop once followed the killed dance hall victim to the end of a subway line where she saw the girl meet up with a guy, so they decide to follow up by going to canvass the neighborhood at the end of the line. Low and behold, gal cop spots the guy the victim met the night she followed her and....it turns out to be the cabbie! Yep. Seems cabbie Franciscus and his wife's sister were playing hanky panky, he got her knocked up so he had to wipe her out and make it look like the mugger done it.
The cabbie makes a run for it, tries to jump off a nearby wharf onto a ferry but misses and gets cuisine-arted to shreds by the ferry's propellers.
Oh, and previously they also capture the mugger/slasher who turns out to be an upper-class, mild-mannered, milk-toasty, hen-pecked gentleman who is relieved to finally be apprehended just like shrink cop Kent figured he would. I actually enjoyed the film. It was easy to follow, had the nice twist ending and was quite simple and totally unpretentious.
Seems Kent's gal pal cop once followed the killed dance hall victim to the end of a subway line where she saw the girl meet up with a guy, so they decide to follow up by going to canvass the neighborhood at the end of the line. Low and behold, gal cop spots the guy the victim met the night she followed her and....it turns out to be the cabbie! Yep. Seems cabbie Franciscus and his wife's sister were playing hanky panky, he got her knocked up so he had to wipe her out and make it look like the mugger done it.
The cabbie makes a run for it, tries to jump off a nearby wharf onto a ferry but misses and gets cuisine-arted to shreds by the ferry's propellers.
Oh, and previously they also capture the mugger/slasher who turns out to be an upper-class, mild-mannered, milk-toasty, hen-pecked gentleman who is relieved to finally be apprehended just like shrink cop Kent figured he would. I actually enjoyed the film. It was easy to follow, had the nice twist ending and was quite simple and totally unpretentious.