Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Walk A Crooked Mile (1948 Gordon Douglas)

Another Edward Small production, for Columbia, saddled with a solemn and redundant voiceover which keeps telling us things which are bleedin' obvious.

FBI agent Dennis O'Keefe teams up with Brit Louis Hayward to stop secret plans being leaked from top nuclear facility - how it's being done is the interesting denouement, but before that happens the couple are almost executed by the murderous gang - saved only by an emigré who has lost her family to Nazis and is willing to sacrifice all for her new Mother country yatter yatter. Raymond Burr is one of the nasties.

Shot in chiaroscuro by George Robinson, a routine Columbia B movie photographer. Written by George Bruce from Bertram Millhauser story. The title is better than the film.




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