Jan Sterling is a pick up lady who is pregnant. When she calls the father, he blows her away in a secluded area. Problem is that Marshall Thompson is on a drunken binge following the death of his son during childbirth. Sterling lures Thompson into his car and then steals it. When she is killed, the killer ditches the car and several months later Sterling's skeleton is found along with the awfully wet car.
Excellent detective work by cop Ricardo Montalban and as a Harvard professor turned sleuth Bennett leads to the arrest of Thompson, thus destroying his life with his wife, nicely played by Sally Forest.
Elsa Lanchester steals the movie as a snoopy, vicious landlady, whose greed shall lead to her demise as well.
Well done picture by showing how the real killer is caught at the end. This is film noir at its very best.
Excellent detective work by cop Ricardo Montalban and as a Harvard professor turned sleuth Bennett leads to the arrest of Thompson, thus destroying his life with his wife, nicely played by Sally Forest.
Elsa Lanchester steals the movie as a snoopy, vicious landlady, whose greed shall lead to her demise as well.
Well done picture by showing how the real killer is caught at the end. This is film noir at its very best.