Summaries

A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.

Garage owner Gus Hilmer marries showgirl Julie, many years his junior, and this causes a conflict between Gus and Frankie, a young mechanic he has befriended. Frankie falls in love with Julie and she, as expected in any Hugo Haas film, can not resist his advances. Frankie puts together an automobile out of parts lying around in Gus's junkyard, and forces Julie to accompany him, as he follows Gus and runs him down on a lonely road, and later dismantles the car/murder weapon. Unexpected by the lovers, but not any audience that had seen any Haas film, his twin brother, just released from prison, turns up at the reading of the will, and moves in as half-owner of the garage. So, he and his brother's widow then get together and knock off Frankie? No, nothing that simple from Hair-Shirt Hugo.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

A rich elderly gas station owner marries a beautiful young blonde. The wife soon begins an affair with her husband's younger, hunkier employee who hatches a plot to kill the old man for his money and his wife. But after the deed is done, could he have killed the wrong man?[email protected]

Details

Keywords
  • psychotronic film
  • undertaker
  • parole officer
  • crime noir
  • mistaken identity murder
Genres
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Film-Noir
Release date Mar 14, 1957
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Production companies Hugo Haas Productions

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 27m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

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