Decent Poverty Row Mystery
Assistant District Attorney Onslow Stevens is dating Dorothy Tree, when he catches a murder case and convicts Paul Fix, even though there's something mysterious going on. Miss Tree hints she knows something, but refuses to tell. Then she vanishes and winds up in prison, where she hopes to track down the real murderer.
It's a decent little story, with but as often happens with Poverty Row mysteries, there's too much idiot plotting going on: bad police work, people keeping mum with possible exculpatory evidence. Still, the competent direction of Phil Rosen and an able cast that includes Jack La Rue, Mary Doran, Walter Byron, Oscar Apfel, and Selmer Jackson keep things bubbling along through the end.
It's a decent little story, with but as often happens with Poverty Row mysteries, there's too much idiot plotting going on: bad police work, people keeping mum with possible exculpatory evidence. Still, the competent direction of Phil Rosen and an able cast that includes Jack La Rue, Mary Doran, Walter Byron, Oscar Apfel, and Selmer Jackson keep things bubbling along through the end.
- boblipton
- 19 set 2023