An enjoyable Columbia Studios quickie starring Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Ray Walker, Tom Powers, Charles Russell, Jacqueline De Witt, Benson Fong and Victor Sen Young.
The film is set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Hatfield is a "slightly" nuts gunman, thief and all around nasty. He works for upscale antique dealer, Jacqueline De Witt. She cases high-end shops etc for expensive pieces and then sends Hatfield to "acquire" said items.
Hatfield simply walks in at closing time, sticks a gun in the clerk's face and asks them to wrap up the item. He then shoots the clerk dead, calls the police, tells them there has been a shooting and leaves. The police show up and can never figure out who did the shooting or made the phone call. What really throws the cops off is the different foreign accent he uses when he calls. They are not sure who or what they are looking for.
De Witt then fakes up a history for the items and sells them down the coast in L.A. to wealthy clients.
This train of events hits a loose rail when one of De Witt's customers reads about a stolen statue in a newspaper story. It sure sounds like the one the woman had bought from De Witt. A call to the cops and they come calling on De Witt.
Only problem is that Hatfield reads the same paper and has already tied up the loose end with several bullets to De Witt's back. The police finally tumble to Hatfield when they just miss catching him during a botched robbery.
Hatfield hits the flophouse district in an effort to lay low till the heat is off. The cops however keep up the pressure and soon flush him out. There is a rooftop chase and a blazing gun battle before Hatfield is dispatched.
This programmer is all nicely tied up in 66 mins. This quickie was directed by Seymour Friedman. Friedman gave us LOAN SHARK, DEVIL'S HENCHMAN, CUSTOM'S AGENT, CRIMINAL LAWYER and several of the BOSTON BLACKIE films.
The d of p was Henry Freulich who worked on BUNCO SQUAD, UNDER THE GUN, NEW ORLEANS UNCENSORED, CHICAGO SYNDICATE and THE CROOKED WEB.
The lead, Hatfield, was also in DESTINATION MURDER, THE UNSUSPECTED and THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
It is an OK time waster in my humble opinion.
The film is set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Hatfield is a "slightly" nuts gunman, thief and all around nasty. He works for upscale antique dealer, Jacqueline De Witt. She cases high-end shops etc for expensive pieces and then sends Hatfield to "acquire" said items.
Hatfield simply walks in at closing time, sticks a gun in the clerk's face and asks them to wrap up the item. He then shoots the clerk dead, calls the police, tells them there has been a shooting and leaves. The police show up and can never figure out who did the shooting or made the phone call. What really throws the cops off is the different foreign accent he uses when he calls. They are not sure who or what they are looking for.
De Witt then fakes up a history for the items and sells them down the coast in L.A. to wealthy clients.
This train of events hits a loose rail when one of De Witt's customers reads about a stolen statue in a newspaper story. It sure sounds like the one the woman had bought from De Witt. A call to the cops and they come calling on De Witt.
Only problem is that Hatfield reads the same paper and has already tied up the loose end with several bullets to De Witt's back. The police finally tumble to Hatfield when they just miss catching him during a botched robbery.
Hatfield hits the flophouse district in an effort to lay low till the heat is off. The cops however keep up the pressure and soon flush him out. There is a rooftop chase and a blazing gun battle before Hatfield is dispatched.
This programmer is all nicely tied up in 66 mins. This quickie was directed by Seymour Friedman. Friedman gave us LOAN SHARK, DEVIL'S HENCHMAN, CUSTOM'S AGENT, CRIMINAL LAWYER and several of the BOSTON BLACKIE films.
The d of p was Henry Freulich who worked on BUNCO SQUAD, UNDER THE GUN, NEW ORLEANS UNCENSORED, CHICAGO SYNDICATE and THE CROOKED WEB.
The lead, Hatfield, was also in DESTINATION MURDER, THE UNSUSPECTED and THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
It is an OK time waster in my humble opinion.