- DIRECTOR:
Arthur Lubin
- ACTORS:
Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Robert Warwick, Clarence Kolb, Mae Marsh, Tony Barrett, Philip Ahn
- PLOT:
A woman (Walker) conspires with her lover (Barrett) to have her husband (Donlevy) killed, but the husband survives and must decide whether or not to come out of hiding from a peaceful small town, where he has fallen in love with a plucky mechanic (Raines).
- EVALUATION:
A very quirky film featuring one of the most comically inept attempted murders I've ever seen and some surprising twists and turns after its somewhat unlikeable protagonist reveals to the world that he is still alive.
- WRITING:
Nothing special, although you might say that the Chinese characters get lost in the Confucian.
- FILMING:
Some decent location filming, particularly in small-town Larkspur.
- BEST PART:
When Donlevy's character says "In this world, you turn the other cheek and you get hit with a lug wrench."
- TRIVIA:
Arthur Lubin filmed several Francis the Talking Mule pictures and is the man most responsible for bringing Mr. Ed to television, so I guess his specialty was talkative equines.
- STINGER:
A man going by the name of Burns does exactly that when he drives a car into a gasoline truck.
