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...satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife wrote the script for Ambush, a Grade-B production which was one of the best shows of 1939; and settled down on a farm in Pennsylvania's Bucks County which he bought from Michael Gold. More recently he has run a radio show (Author, Author); and for seven years he has been writing pieces...
...heroine, sultry siren; the ba-ad, ba-a-ad gangster; the well-greased reporter; beefy foto-man; city editor on the perpetual verge of a nervous breakdown; and then, of course, somebody gets murdered just to start things off with a bang. A perfect set-up for a grade-B picture...
From title to final fade-out there is nothing new, nothing unexpected in this satisfying grade-B picture. But at least nothing is left out. First there is the stock shot of the Manharian sky-line. Then the murder, the sirens and the police-radio, the scene in the D. A.'s office with the reporters. After a short sequence in the jail with the stircrazy cell-mate, the court-room scene begins. It involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly...