Western Pacific Agent

Evil bindlestiff Mickey Knox kills the station agent who is sitting on tens of thousand of dollars and takes the cash. In comes railroad agent Kent Taylor, who myopic witness Sid Melton, to track him down. The trouble is that some one can identify the murder; it's Morris Carnovsky, who's Knox's father.

It's a well directed movie by Sam Newfield, who was actually a pretty good director when given more than the $100 that PRC had been willing to spend on a movie. There are some nice setting shots of railroad bridges, a good portion is handsomely photographed in interiors of Western Pacific's observation cars. Where this movie falls apart is in the dialogue, which I blame on hack screenwriter Fred Myton, who never met a cliche he didn't steal. But allow the basic competence of the performers, who include Sheila Ryan and Dick Elliott to charm you, and it's watchable.