Review:

“Wanting to make peace with a racketeer named Big Jim, Scott Brady returns to Chicago and ends up being implicated in his murder, obviously framed. What better time to kill someone than when one of their worst enemies all of a sudden makes it come back? Brady was once involved with the niece (Dorothy Hart) of the dead man, and ordered to shy out of Chicago quickly, but comes back hoping to marry her. He happens to meet an old friend, John Russell, enroute, which he hopes will smooth the reunion with Jim, but you can’t smooth things out with a corpse. Things get more deadly for Brady because not only is he wanted by the law, but by racketeers who worked for Big Jim as well.

This one has some colorful supporting players in this William Castle film noir, most notably Daniel Ferniel as Gene, Big Jim’s henchman who remains loyal to his dead boss for having given him a chance when no one else would. Peggy Dow and Bruce Bennett are quite good two in major supporting roles, with Dow a teacher Brady needs on the plane and Bennett a detective who believes Brady’s story of being framed when presented with evidence. Ferniel is memorable as one of the few black characters on screen in the 40’s presented completely realistically and without any stereotypes, and it’s a very good performance. A complex B noir that marked Rock Hudson’s first time on screen, even though it’s a teeny tiny role.”