Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s FEATURE FILMS
Description: COMEDY, DRAMA, CRIME STARRING: PAT O'BRIEN, EDWARD ARNOLD, BRODERICK CRAWFORD RUTH TERRY AND EVE ARDEN SHOTS INCLUDE: MEN AT RADIO MICROPHONE REPORTING THE NEWS CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "CLARENCE BUCKMAN HIGHWAY MOGUL KILLED" CU RADIO MAN AT MICROPHONE. FUNERAL, PALLBEARERS NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER SNAPS FLASHBULB AND TAKES PICTURES MOBSTER LOOKING CHARACTERS GET OUT OF CAR AND GO INTO BAR CORRUPTION MOBSTERS TAKE OFF HATS AND LOOK TO THE SKY NEON SIGN "PETE GODENA'S RIVIERA" SHOWGIRLS PERFORM DANCE AND SONG NUMBER HANGING OUT AT THE BAR GANGSTER TOSSED OUT OF BAR BY BOUNCERS, MAN IN SUIT SHOVES GUY INTO ELEVATOR COUPLE SLOW DANCING MAN ABUSES SLAPS WOMAN CHIVALROUS MAN KNOCKS OUT ABUSIVE GUY MAN, WITH WOMAN ON HIS LAP GETS UP. WOMAN FALLS. HE STEPS OVER HER AND LEAVES BLACK ELEVATOR OPERATOR THROUGHOUT FILM MAN RUBS MASSAGES WOMAN'S FEET CU DOOR SAYS "JOHN WEBB ATTORNEY AT LAW" MAN ENTERS SECRETARY CONTINUES PUTTING ON HER MAKEUP BARTENDER ON TELEPHONE THEN POURS WATER ON DRUNKARD'S HEAD TO WAKE HIM UP AND GIVES HIM THE PHONE MAN AT DESK ON PHONE. DAGGER FLIES BY HIM CU DAGGER KNIFE WITH NOTE ATTACHED. WOMAN CHANGES CLOTHES IN FRONT OF MAN MAN CHECKS HIS WATCH TIME AND FINDS HIS WATCH IS BROKEN HE SLAPS WRIST DISAPPOINTEDLY GANGSTER ENTERS DARK APARTMENT HE TURNS ON LIGHT TO FIND WOMAN DEAD ON THE BED. A KNIFE IN HER BACK MAN WIPES OFF HIS FINGER PRINTS FROM LIGHTSWITCH AND LEAVES MAN IN PHONE BOOTH TALKING DETECTIVES AT CRIME SCENE MAN HAS HIS SHOES TAKEN FROM HIM BY INVESTIGATORS CU FEET WALKING, IN THE MIDDLE ONE PAIR OF FEET HAVE NO SHOES ON CU DOOR "MELVYN FROMM HOMOCIDE BUREAU" GANGSTERS TALKING MAN STOMPS ON ANOTHER'S FOOT "OUCH!" WOMAN READS NEWSPAPER CLIPPING CU CLIPPING FIGHT IN THE DARK MAN TURNS ON LIGHT TO FIND THAT HE'S BEEN STUGGLING WITH A WOMAN A COUPLE OF WOMEN FAINT CU PHOTO AND HEADLINE "WHY IS WEBB FREE? KILLER?" CU CHECK MAN KISSES WOMAN. HE'S VERY HAPPY CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "POLITICAL MACHINE EXPOSED" NEWSPAPER CLIPPING ON FLOOR BLOWS OUT WINDOW SINGLE PROP PLANE FLIES AT NIGHT THUGS WITH FLASHLIGHTS IN CEMETERY CU FLASHLIGHTS ON HEADSTONES MAN IN OFFICE THROWS KNIFE AT THE OTHER GUY WHO STOPS IT WITH A CHAIR A FISTFIGHT ENSUES AND MAN WHO THREW THE KNIFE FALLS AGAINST THE CHAIR WHICH HAS THE KNIFE BLADE STICKING OUT END }T
