Another standard City Confidential/Expose that perforated the Fifties and most had not much to recommend. The run of supposedly hard-boiled uncovering of dirty dealings and sleazy surroundings usually were less than advertised and almost always dull and disappointing.
This is not one of the better ones. Despite some travelogue scenery and a try at authenticating the whole thing with sombre narration it is all quite unremarkable and is nothing more than pedestrian.
The ending has some really silly things like putting a child in the cross-hairs and an approving lovelorn glance back and forth between a Cop and a reluctant Witness who picks up a Gun and starts firing. This really warms the Heart of our protector and is quite a Screen embarrassment. But that is typical of this whole clunky, stiff, cardboard cutouts of Cops, Bad-guys, and Girls with chiffon gowns.
This is not one of the better ones. Despite some travelogue scenery and a try at authenticating the whole thing with sombre narration it is all quite unremarkable and is nothing more than pedestrian.
The ending has some really silly things like putting a child in the cross-hairs and an approving lovelorn glance back and forth between a Cop and a reluctant Witness who picks up a Gun and starts firing. This really warms the Heart of our protector and is quite a Screen embarrassment. But that is typical of this whole clunky, stiff, cardboard cutouts of Cops, Bad-guys, and Girls with chiffon gowns.