Review by case-50

In 1948 the classic era of old-school murder mysteries was already coming to its end and while this little movie was definitely not one to revive the genre or add anything new to it, it is still a pleasant little timepasser if you do not have very high expectation. The story (about a murder on a campus during a concert and the ensuing hunt for the killer by the "teenagers" and their clashes with the police inspection) is so-so, the characters are paper thin (but some of them are still loveable), the songs are of very uneven quality, the script has a couple of holes, but still, the film has a good pacing, the solution is actually kind of clever and the whole movie has a charmingly simpleminded quality to it. It is the kind of film that is not good, but is just... nice, and you cannot be angry at it for its shortcomings.

I am not at all familiar with Monogram's relatively short-lived The Teen Agers series which came to its end with this picture, so I don't know if it is better or worse compared to the other enries, but well... while it is quite obvious that those teenagers are anything but actual teenagers, they still do a proper job with their roles (unlike some of the supporting cast). And of course Donald MacBride shines as always as the grumpy cop/daddy.

The film seems to be in public domain and the copy I have seen is the rather low quality one up in ArchiveOrg, which clocks a bit below 57 mins.