This is a solid B movie with Lex Barker playing second fiddle to the talents of Merle Oberon, who plays a weak-kneed society girl. She also gets out at the wrong time from a train she is taking, but that is something that is not connected to the main plot. It seems that Lex is having a bad night; first he gets framed for killing a former partner, and then, while trying to make a getaway, steals the car owned by Merle, who had hit and run an old man only minutes before. When Lex is booked, he is now faced with either a manslaughter charge for the hit and run on one side of the town, or the murder of his partner on the other side of town. Merle, on the other hand, is as free as a bird. However, the plot diverges from there with other complications. Not a bad B movie, and interesting to see early Oberon.
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