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Behind Locked Doors (1948)
Topic Started: Sep 7 2011, 09:09 AM (264 Views)
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Crusading journalist Lucille Bremmer is on the trail of a crooked judge who took it on the lam when the jig was up; by tailing his tacky mistress, Lucille concludes the judge's crony, who runs a sanitarium for the mentally ill, is hiding the ol' boy inside. She convinces (in that way only pretty women can convince) private dick Richard Carlson to pretend to be nutty, get himself locked up, and then find evidence of the judge's presence. This one of those times when the private dick should really have more sense, but no, he allows himself to get talked into it. Well, to make a short story even shorter (the movie's over in less than 63 minutes, folks), the judge discovers the dick before the dick discovers the judge, and Carlson is thrown into a cage with a punch-drunk heavyweight fighter (Tor Johnson, of Plan 9 from Outer Space fame) who murders anyone within reach whenever he hears a bell ring. Ding, ding!

Fine, terse, dark film from director Budd Boetticher. Excellent print from Kino, part of the "Noir: Dark Side of Hollywood" collection. Movies like this make me wonder why any film needs to go longer than 62 minutes.
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