There's something odd going on at the taxi company Brian Donleavy drives for. Fellow driver Harold Huber has him deliver a package, but when he's followed, he dumps it. Soon he picks up Alan Dinehart as a fare. Dinehart runs an antiques shop that fronts for a counterfeiting ring. Good thing Donleavy is an undercover Secret Service agent trying to crack the ring.
It's well written, well acted, and with Eugene Forde directing, there's nothing to complain about in that department, nor in Barney McGill's fog-bound camerawork. Still, there's something peculiarly weightless about this 20th Century-Fox B movie that keeps it curiusly uninvlving. This, despite a cast that includes Frances Drake as Dinehart's secretary who is ambivalent about what's going on, Sig Ruman, Gilbert Roland in a sizable role that he doesn't seem to put much effort into, and parts for Lon Chaney Jr., and Regis Toomey. Perhaps Roland knew something, because there's a certain amount of laziness in the details. Art director Hans Peters has decorated the set in a sequence that is supposed to be set on a ship anchored in the harbor; but the set is decorated with vases, glassware, and assorted props that would tumble to the deck were the ship to rock.
It's well written, well acted, and with Eugene Forde directing, there's nothing to complain about in that department, nor in Barney McGill's fog-bound camerawork. Still, there's something peculiarly weightless about this 20th Century-Fox B movie that keeps it curiusly uninvlving. This, despite a cast that includes Frances Drake as Dinehart's secretary who is ambivalent about what's going on, Sig Ruman, Gilbert Roland in a sizable role that he doesn't seem to put much effort into, and parts for Lon Chaney Jr., and Regis Toomey. Perhaps Roland knew something, because there's a certain amount of laziness in the details. Art director Hans Peters has decorated the set in a sequence that is supposed to be set on a ship anchored in the harbor; but the set is decorated with vases, glassware, and assorted props that would tumble to the deck were the ship to rock.