Summary Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O'Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely---another private-detective who had gotten O'Brien involved to begin with---and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband. View more details
Directed : William Berke
Written : Lou Morheim Julian Harmon Herb Margolis
Stars : Hugh Beaumont Tom Neal Richard Travis Edward Brophy
Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama Romance Film-Noir
Release date : Apr 19, 1951
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production companies : Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Summary Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O'Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason's husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of "Professor" Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely---another private-detective who had gotten O'Brien involved to begin with---and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband. View more details
Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama Romance Film-Noir
Release date : Apr 19, 1951
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production companies : Sigmund Neufeld Productions
