Watchable movie with the often used formula of the perfect plan gone awry. Edmond O'Brien and Lizabeth Scott are always good. I guess one could say this film had a happy ending: the millionaire's life was spared, the evil mastermind was banished (to do evil elsewhere, no doubt), Mike and Brandy (who knew that was a name in 1951!) paired up and Kathy found a new crook to reform. But was anyone else left wondering, what DID happen to the child? Would have been a neat plot twist if the lawyer really had discovered what became of the old couple's son while investigating all of those orphanages and it turned out the son was a hard-working family man with a couple of kids. Of course the lawyer would not have told the long-suffering parents but would have revealed it to Mike and Brandy (or would he?) I just imagined the parents finally being reunited with their son, a daughter-in-law and a couple of grandchildren. Ahh, but that would have been to saccharine an ending for a noir I guess.
Review of Two of a Kind
