Poor Ed O'Brien, forever on the wrong side of the law, this time suffering the travails and hardships of amnesia after a $130,000 heist. How he gets to be amnesic is not explained, though he is forced to undergo brain surgery at the start - at whose behest no one says, though it would appear the police knew about it.
That's one of the rubs in this convoluted yet rather naive plot: why would the authorities wish to operate on the brain of a man who stole $130,000, knowing the risk of blanking out his memory? Anyway, O'Brien carries the film with his near constant presence and I can only praise the high quality of his performance.
The three sidekicks who keep biffing, torturing, and chasing him all make excellent living gargoyles.
Director Lew Landers, about whose work I must ashamedly admit my total ignorance, shot this B noir in 3-D, and he comes up with some astounding sequences, whether they be in an operating room, a fun park with cops shooting from bumper cars, or the roller coaster ride to end all roller coaster rides.
Audrey Totter seems at first to just want to seduce O'Brien into confessing where he hid the dough, then she turns into a woman who loves him... and he into into a honest man to make it a happy and classy ending.
Yes, we have all seen it all before, and the script's general tone is over the top but cinematography is extraordinay for a B flick, and there is humor, verve, and solid action sequences to make this a most riveting 67 minutes.
Recommended.
That's one of the rubs in this convoluted yet rather naive plot: why would the authorities wish to operate on the brain of a man who stole $130,000, knowing the risk of blanking out his memory? Anyway, O'Brien carries the film with his near constant presence and I can only praise the high quality of his performance.
The three sidekicks who keep biffing, torturing, and chasing him all make excellent living gargoyles.
Director Lew Landers, about whose work I must ashamedly admit my total ignorance, shot this B noir in 3-D, and he comes up with some astounding sequences, whether they be in an operating room, a fun park with cops shooting from bumper cars, or the roller coaster ride to end all roller coaster rides.
Audrey Totter seems at first to just want to seduce O'Brien into confessing where he hid the dough, then she turns into a woman who loves him... and he into into a honest man to make it a happy and classy ending.
Yes, we have all seen it all before, and the script's general tone is over the top but cinematography is extraordinay for a B flick, and there is humor, verve, and solid action sequences to make this a most riveting 67 minutes.
Recommended.