Forgettable crime drama with hero newspaperman framed for manslaughter (he really did not do it). Wise con tempts him to join an escape from County Jail but during execution, the confederate gets left behind and our hero actually steals a car. Our hero has obviously watched cowboy movies because he outwits the cops by pulling into a side road and watching the trailing patrol car go by.
In meantime hero encounters the nicest folks in View Point - `The City with the democratic point of view, pop. 44,176.' His wife gives birth, they stay as a guest of the town doctor (for five years), and our hero becomes the editor of the View Point News. The confederate escapes from jail, gets off a freight train, sees the hero and blackmails wife. Smart doctor suspects something, gets the con's fingerprints and the cops come in to save the day.
Wow, all in 61 minutes! Despite the breakneck speed of the story, there is time to listen to child actress Patti Hale sing and recite multiple lines of poetry. How did she learn all those lines? And why does the final scene need to have the 5-year old daughter in the room while the police discuss her father's past?
Obvious underlying themes of crime does not pay is worth at least one line of dialog. Another theme is that you can't teach an old dog new tricks - our hero gets framed initially because he is going after a politico and he repeats the behavior later in View Point.
In meantime hero encounters the nicest folks in View Point - `The City with the democratic point of view, pop. 44,176.' His wife gives birth, they stay as a guest of the town doctor (for five years), and our hero becomes the editor of the View Point News. The confederate escapes from jail, gets off a freight train, sees the hero and blackmails wife. Smart doctor suspects something, gets the con's fingerprints and the cops come in to save the day.
Wow, all in 61 minutes! Despite the breakneck speed of the story, there is time to listen to child actress Patti Hale sing and recite multiple lines of poetry. How did she learn all those lines? And why does the final scene need to have the 5-year old daughter in the room while the police discuss her father's past?
Obvious underlying themes of crime does not pay is worth at least one line of dialog. Another theme is that you can't teach an old dog new tricks - our hero gets framed initially because he is going after a politico and he repeats the behavior later in View Point.