Erweiterte Suche

After serving seven years for a murder he did not commit, Tony Pelassier, is determined to clear his name, but he finds that going back seven years in an attempt to piece together threads of information is not an easy task. A Scotland Yard detective tries to persuade him to forget the past but Tony and his fiancée, Marie, go ahead with the investigation. Tony had been convicted of the murder of a girl who was the cashier in the garage where he worked, and evidence at the trial showed her to be an accomplished blackmailer. Tony became involved by repairing a bracelet for her and taking it to her home where he was apparently the last to see her alive. Tony and Marie succeed in tracking down Carole Carlton, a model who had been a close friend of the murdered girl.

Based on how far out of the socket the long arm of coincidence is stretched in this film, it is a lot closer to a Tex Avery cartoon than to any kind of film-noir genre. American Richard Arlen, long past his prime and cast to have an American actor heading the cast so the film might actually induce an American booking (an observation based on the reality of selling tickets and with no intentions of knocking the otherwise good all-British cast), gets innocently involved with a drug ring when he is left a package containing their stolen goods. Some stuff happens but he and a detective meet and eventually round up the crooks. The other primary reason for an independent B-film of this quality ending up with 20th Century-Fox as the distributor is that TC-F was up to their ears in slow-in-production CinemaScope films and couldn't make enough films fast enough to meet the demands of their exchanges and exhibitors and had to turn to the indies to provide more product. Actually that is the first reason and the Arlen casting was second.