Agrega una trama en tu idiomaMilton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police ... Leer todoMilton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit. In his travels, he stumbles across the body of another murder victim and... Leer todoMilton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit. In his travels, he stumbles across the body of another murder victim and switches identities with the corpse. With his new name he poses as the long-lost son of a... Leer todo
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Martha Higby
- (as Barbara Reed)
- Officer Johnson
- (as Robert Williams)
- Patrolman - Accident Scene
- (sin créditos)
- Receptionist
- (sin créditos)
- Policeman - Coroner's Office
- (sin créditos)
- Detective Lt. Dillon
- (sin créditos)
- Jim Guthrie
- (sin créditos)
- Johnny
- (sin créditos)
- R. C. Hurlbert - Coroner
- (sin créditos)
Opiniones destacadas
Although this might have made a nice two-reel movie, or perhaps an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock show, it goes on way too long, with Beal being an inert lump who absorbs good and bad luck like a bean bag. At a shorter length, it might have some sardonic wit. But at 67 minutes, you have time to despise every character in it.
Fortunately for Beal, he was another of those actors who didn't need the silver screen. He lived for another fifty years and prospered, on stage and big and little screens, dying in 1997 at the age of 87.
Better cinematography than this type of C production tended to have.
I thoroughly enjoyed it!
The mechanical objects depicted in the film are clever and an integral part of the film. The movie is a bit reminiscent of the hobo classic, Sullivan's Travels, that wonderful 1941 film starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Quite frankly, I thought that film was better than the Oscar winner that year, How Green Was My Valley.
This film breezes by in just over an hour, and you kind of wish it would have lasted longer. Lots of fun.
Domestic life paints a similar picture. Despite a loving wife (Barbara Read), his noble ambitions have fallen foul of the 'too young, too old, wrong time, wrong place' mindset. He's little more than Mr. Mop.....with his talking clock! During his wife's absence, he is initially hesitant about a day at the races (the track meeting, not the movie!), as he has promised to clean up at home. In the event, he cleans up at the track, but celebrations are short lived when he becomes the chief suspect (despite tenuous evidence) in the murder of a female acquaintance. Once again Beal turns out to be the dripping tap, rather than the water cannon, choosing to run away and exist as a hobo. Stealing the documents and adopting the identity of a dead drifter becomes a life changing experience of mammoth proportions, but will his wacky, quirky gadgets be the making or the breaking of him?
Devoid of both a big budget and a big name, 'Key Witness' succeeds by virtue of a big heart. Well acted and consistently satisfying, unconventionally bouncy, buoyant and frothy, but tempered by a pervading dark, forbidding undercurrent and an unnerving twist. An enlightened curiosity, a rare bird......a novelty noir.
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- TriviaAs a matter of interest, the date giving for the Patent Pending on the electric switch, February 10th, 1947, was a Monday.
- Citas
Martha Higby: Milton! You haven't got the backbone of a jellyfish!
- ConexionesReferenced in 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
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Detalles
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 7 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1