Except for the improbable event that Edwina Brown (Laraine Day) so quickly trusts Oliver Duffy (Lew Ayres), this is quite an interesting movie. There is an axe-murderer is terrorizing Chicago and the police are baffled. The psychiatrist helping the police believes this is the work of a lunatic. The plot has been used by multiple mystery writers; the villain murders several people to cover up who his real target is. Regardless, this is a surprising good film.
Lew Ayres turns in a good performance as the actor turned detective when the woman he meets seems to be targeted. And Laraine Day is quite good as the scatterbrain who trusts too quickly.
We know the man behind the axe murders but the motive isn't known until the very end. Somehow the improbabilities hold together, and we have an entertaining movie to watch.
I caught this on Hastings Mystery Theater on YouTube and was glad I did or I wouldn't have found this little gem
While I watched this on a summer morning in heat and humidity of Savannah, I felt it would be better to watch on a cold rainy day in December.
Lew Ayres turns in a good performance as the actor turned detective when the woman he meets seems to be targeted. And Laraine Day is quite good as the scatterbrain who trusts too quickly.
We know the man behind the axe murders but the motive isn't known until the very end. Somehow the improbabilities hold together, and we have an entertaining movie to watch.
I caught this on Hastings Mystery Theater on YouTube and was glad I did or I wouldn't have found this little gem
While I watched this on a summer morning in heat and humidity of Savannah, I felt it would be better to watch on a cold rainy day in December.