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Who Is The Real Crook?
ccthemovieman-13 May 2010
The "Jewelry Store Burglar" has struck again. We watch him do his last heist and it's kind of strange: the man wears no mask, has an identifying mole on his face and wears a fedora with dark-rimmed glasses. He looks a lot like "Clark Kent," except he speaks with a Southern accent.....yet that accent sounds phony.

With today's video cameras and technology, the guy would never have made it to his second burglary but here (at least on this show) back in the late '50s, he's done six heists in the last few weeks in Chicago and nobody can catch him. Despite reports of what he looks like, the cops' informants have no idea who he could be, either. Is this an amateur who has gotten lucky?

Finally, from a laundry identification, Frank arrests a guy named "Harry Evans," and he looks to be the man. All the evidence points to him, including his Texas accent.

However, his wife (naively?) insists, "Harry is as honest as the day's long. He could never do this!" Actually, she may be right......although all the evidence, including lineups and other witnesses sure don't make her husband look like he's going to beat this rap.

All in all, a pretty interesting story with some unique twists to it. Actor Jim Davis plays both "Evans" and a guy who looks him ("Mickey Saville") and might or might not be the crook. It's hard to tell which of these two bandits is lying.
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6/10
You better pack your bags your out of circulation!
kapelusznik186 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** After a string of jewel robberies in the Loop section of Chicago the Chicago PD come up with an air tight case against bookish bank clerk Harry Evens, Jim Davis, in his being positively identified as the culprit by a number of his supposed victims. What clinches it for the police is his laundry being found in a flop house where the robber stashed his loot. With Let. Frank Ballinger, Lee Marvin, a bit suspicious in how neat the case against Evens is he checks out a robbery of Even's house where a number of items were stolen that included handkerchiefs with his personnel laundry mark on them!

As it turns out neither Evens and his wife Jane, Kristine Miller, didn't feel that the robbery of some laundry was that big of a crime to report to the police by Lt. Ballinger felt that there was some connection of the robbery of the Evens' home to the sting of jewel robberies that he seems to be framed for. Sure enough the evidence ,a rag used to break into the Evens home, leads to house painter Mickey Seville ,also played by Jim Davis, who has a striking resemblance to Evens himself!

***SPOILERS*** A puzzling case for the Chicago PD but as it turned out Let. Frank Ballinger's hunch was right on target. He saw that in the evidence against Evens being so air tight it had to be planted and sure enough it was. Planted by his look alike Mickey Seville to cover up the very crimes that he committed and framed Evens for! And who eventually was to end up, with a long stretch behind bars, paying for them! It wasn't all that easy for Let. Ballinger to apprehend Seville who was hell bent in not getting caught and escaping justice. Facing Seville alone in his flop rooming house Let. Ballinger put him to sleep, with a solid right to the jaw, before he had a chance to bolt out the door and make his escape.
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