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Richard Bird plays a crime reporter who has a drink problem,now there's a novelty.He is reprimanded by his boss who wants more news.Bird fancies the paper oner's daughter,Nancy Burne.Unfortunately his feelings are not reciprocated as she is in love with a very young looking Edward Underdown.They all end up in a nightclub in Soho.Underdown gets very drunk and ends up at the flat of the eponymous Miss Warren,Diana Napier.It is quite clear that Napier wants him to study more than her etchings.Underdown refuses to make love to her,so Napier threatens to blackmail him.The light is turned off ,there is a scuffle and a bang.the next we know Birds paper has come out with an exclusive on the murder of Warren.Underdown is the natural suspect.He is arrested and sent for trial.Bird changes paper and is laying into Underwood in his new paper.Burne goes to him to try to persuade him to lay off.Bird will only do this if she will marry him.She initially agrees but when he tries to kiss her she is repulsed and all bets are off.Underdown is tried and convicted and sentenced to be executed.Burne goes to Scotland Yard to tell them of what happened with Bird.They get Bird to meet them at Warren's flat.Circumstancial evidence proves that the murderer is Bird.He dashes out of the room,locks the door,phones up his office and gives them the story of his guilt and suicide and jumps out of the window. All this in just under an hour!Typical quota quickie doesn't slow down for a minute to make you consider the flaws.An entertaining thriller.

Terrific quickie with an intelligent set up and all finished in under an hour. Lewis Bevan (Richard Bird) is a washed up alcoholic reporter whose war injury has seen him go from a brilliant crime reporter to one who is now not pulling his weight. Initially seen in a sympathetic light as when he helps a young cadet pull off a scoop he soon shows his true colours to Pauline Warren, a dancer he once helped out of a tough spot but keeping a bit of evidence back so he will always have her under his thumb - like now when the girl he really loves throws him over for a young man from her own set!! "Accidentally" bumping into Hugh (a young Edward Underdown) during the interval of a play, Hugh overcomes his initial dislike of Bevan when the reporter invites him for a night on the town. He sets up a meeting between Hugh and Pauline, Pauline feigns an ankle injury to lure Hugh to her flat, ply him with drink - thus setting the stage for Bevan to make his huge entrance and exposure!!! But things go horribly wrong and in the morning Pauline is just a headline "Dancing Girl Murdered in London"!!

Suddenly May, the boss's daughter and the one Bevan thought returned his love, gets into the action!! Of course Hugh has been arrested and is not making much of an effort to even appear innocent (admittedly it was Underdown's first film). May goes to Bevan to see if he can help her by toning down his sensational reporting of the case and is not impressed with his blackmailing tactics, along the lines of "If you consent to be my wife, I do have some evidence that will clear him"!!! And for someone who has denied ever being in Pauline's flat he seems to have an amazing knowledge of her dressing table contents - way down to the metholated spirits being kept in a port decanter!!

All three leads (Richard Bird, Nancy Burne, Diane Napier) give solid performances. Bird is great and gives his role a lot of light and shade. He was an all purpose actor who never seemed to stop working - his last appearance was in a 1969 episode of "Public Eye".