Cummings character is down and out and finds a wallet and returns it to a rich gangster type who just got a haircut from a private barber. In this scene, the gangster is telling the barber what a good job she did only he is wearing a hat. Then he flinches and the manicurist nicks his finger so he slaps her to the floor and then gives Cummings a job as his chauffeur. Then a foe of the gangster is left alone in his wine cellar with a bottle of Napoleon brandy and presently he's mauled to death by the gangsters dog and the bottle is broken and spilled all over the cellar floor. How sad. And irrelevant. Then the gangsters sad wife appears and gets Cummings to help her escape from the gangsters clutches, so they high tail it to Havana on a steamer in a single room with a piano in it where he plays sad music and then he pulls the curtains and they obviously get it on. Once in Havana, she gets knifed in the back and Cummings gets busted and then he gets knocked out and wakes up back in Miami, then he has amnesia so he goes to see his Naval doctor who is treating him for traumatic, melodrama, pseudo-noir, B-movie Malady. Then Cummings and the Doctor go to a bar for a drink as part of his treatment and things happen and Cummings remembers some things so he probably had a dream about the Havana stuff so he rushes off to another boat to Havana but the gangster is rushing off there too but he crashes his car with a train he is racing from his back seat gas pedal so then Cummings and the depressed wife can rush off to Havana. But why? I love old black and white movies and I especially love them if they are really good or even make a little sense. This one is just corny but has a nice old Cadillac sedan and a house with statues in it.
Review of The Chase
