Eternal juvenile actor Eric Linden gives a sincere performance as a naive novice reporter who plants evidence to make him appear to be the killer at a roadside inn. Unfortunately, the evidence seems pretty tight and he ends up on the run on spite of evidence he's given girlfriend to clear him which is conviently stolen. This starts off atmospheric and a heavy rainstorm at a spooky old countryside flop House where spooky caretaker Gustav von Seyffertitz saunters around with a black cat clutched in his arm and speaks with a heavy foreign accent.
There's also a thrilling sequence where a newspaper headline indicating Linden as a suspected murderer covers the screen as within the paper, Linden is seen roaming around various locations in an effort not to be caught. However, the film is ridiculous in its plot setup with the lead character showing that young characters don't use their brains while pushing their ambition, and the courtroom sequence is just as lame brained. Chronic stutterer Roscoe Ates provides the comic relief with Roscoe Karns as the stereotypical fast talking newspaper editor and Bruce Cabot as a nasty character also involved. Even with all of the absurdities, the film is still genuinely entertaining and the atmosphere makes it seem a bit better than it really is.
There's also a thrilling sequence where a newspaper headline indicating Linden as a suspected murderer covers the screen as within the paper, Linden is seen roaming around various locations in an effort not to be caught. However, the film is ridiculous in its plot setup with the lead character showing that young characters don't use their brains while pushing their ambition, and the courtroom sequence is just as lame brained. Chronic stutterer Roscoe Ates provides the comic relief with Roscoe Karns as the stereotypical fast talking newspaper editor and Bruce Cabot as a nasty character also involved. Even with all of the absurdities, the film is still genuinely entertaining and the atmosphere makes it seem a bit better than it really is.