Tough newspaper editor meets deserted ex wife after twenty years and accidentally kills her; his star reporter Jon Derek gets on the case and starts to track him down. Good plot, from a novel by ex-journalist Sam Fuller, 'The Dark Page', written for the screen by Ted Sherdeman, Eugene Ling and James Poe.
With Donna Reed, henry O'Neill, Harry Morgan. Photographed by Burnett Guffey, music by George Duning. Columbia.
Derek became a director of terribly bad films and famously married Bo Derek.
Karlson should be quite familiar to us as he made Kansas City Confidential (1952) 99 River Street (1953), Tight Spot (1955) and The Brothers Rico (1957). Also known for: Walking Tall (1973), Kid Galahad (1962). The Young Doctors (1961), Hell to Eternity (1960).
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