You never see or understand what this is all about. Some secret documents are copied that you never see or hear what they are about - some secret weapon, it seems, concerning some secret U-boat or something. If you can't follow the plot, which probably nobody can, just relax and sit back and at least enjoy the great night club scene with many lovely ladies both entertaining and performing exotic dances. The music is just for effects. Hitchcock used to make films like this in England, but they at least had a story to tell and could be identified, but all that Hitchcock clarity is missing here, getting drowned in different confusions, now and then someone killing someone and getting killed. The finale with a great fire consuming the entire set-up is dramatic indeed, and for once there is no happy end, as the lovers don't get away and least of all with the £4000 they tried to get for their trouble. Those invaluable documents that everyone was so awfully greedy about never turn up and never land anywhere - we shall never understand what they were all about.
Review of The Torso Murder Mystery
