A somewhat pedestrian and unimportant film. Has all the elements of a detective mystery. But lacks any real star-power or memorable features. Probably a good theater fodder during it's time. The plot revolves around a theater critic/detective. There is a watchable group of New York street types like taxi driver, bartender and others. All of these character actor faces are familiar to people who are film buffs of this time. It was part of a three film DVD collection of similar detective mysteries of the 40's. I think this was one of those 'potboilers' films that war-time Hollywood was famous in turning out. Nothing special about this film comes to mind to mention here. The plot is uneventful, watchable, but somewhat droll. I always wanted to use the word 'droll'.
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