Despite a dependably fine performance by Hume Cronyn, this Naked City segment is little more than tiresome filler, as our detectives race against the clock to find a missing nitroglycerin bomb.
Cronyn plays a professor who got drunk, made the bomb -just a whiskey bottle holding 8 ounces of nitro, and lost it. Various comical elements, including a clue based on a sailor who had a hula girl tattoo on his forearm, finally lead to the prof's locker where the bottle is found. J. D. Cannon and Terry Carter of the bomb squad go through the motions of suggesting suspenseful danger with Cronyn helping in the eventual bomb disposal.
It might have been mildly diverting to watch 62 years ago, but is an unconvincing, boring artifact now.
Cronyn plays a professor who got drunk, made the bomb -just a whiskey bottle holding 8 ounces of nitro, and lost it. Various comical elements, including a clue based on a sailor who had a hula girl tattoo on his forearm, finally lead to the prof's locker where the bottle is found. J. D. Cannon and Terry Carter of the bomb squad go through the motions of suggesting suspenseful danger with Cronyn helping in the eventual bomb disposal.
It might have been mildly diverting to watch 62 years ago, but is an unconvincing, boring artifact now.