Created by Blake Edwards. This is crime noir rather than comedy that Edwards became better known for.
Dick Powell is Willie Dante. Proprietor of Dante's Inferno. It sells good food but profits come from that illegal gambling den out in the backroom.
Dante meets a troubled woman who tells him that her husband has threatened to kill her. The next day the police call him in. He sees the battered face of a woman who has been violently beaten to death. She wears the same clothes as the woman he met the night before.
Her husband is held for murder. The husband's business partner who frequents Dante's gambling den appears to be unconcerned and shifty as the same time.
It is a hard boiled half hour. Of course the dead wife was not the woman that Dante had encountered the night before. The husband was being framed.
Dick Powell is Willie Dante. Proprietor of Dante's Inferno. It sells good food but profits come from that illegal gambling den out in the backroom.
Dante meets a troubled woman who tells him that her husband has threatened to kill her. The next day the police call him in. He sees the battered face of a woman who has been violently beaten to death. She wears the same clothes as the woman he met the night before.
Her husband is held for murder. The husband's business partner who frequents Dante's gambling den appears to be unconcerned and shifty as the same time.
It is a hard boiled half hour. Of course the dead wife was not the woman that Dante had encountered the night before. The husband was being framed.