- DIRECTOR:
Anthony Mann
- ACTORS:
Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Roland Drew, Emory Parnell, Jane Greer, Jean Brooks
- PLOT:
A cab driver (Rutherford) helps a man (Conway) with amnesia determine precisely how he was involved in a murder.
- EVALUATION:
More pot-boiler than noir, this quirky murder mystery is helped tremendously by Ann Rutherford's indomitable enthusiasm.
- WRITING:
Based on a novel by Gelett Burgess (filmed previously as Two in the Dark) and full of rapid-fire dialogue, some of which is authentically witty.
- FILMING:
Nothing spectacular, although there is a funny haze-infused segment in which the protagonist regains all of his memories.
- BEST PART:
This film contains one of the silliest cinematic treatments of amnesia, in that the main character loses his memory from a blow on the head and recovers from it after being grazed by a bullet.
- TRIVIA:
This was Jane Greer's first credited role (but her drunk act is not very good).
- STINGER:
Newspaper chief yelling "The pink elephants shot Snow White!" into a phone.
