John Mills was totally miscast as the hard boiled cop, and Charles Coburn's role was utterly unnecessary. Barbara Bates can't act her way out of a paper bag. The directing was awful with cop cars screeching into every scene for no reason, weird angles (zoom in on watch to show it's 6:15!) and the unbelievable crawl up the steeple was nothing short of silly. As a big John Mills fan, disappointing is an understatement.
Review of Town on Trial
