Acting
Adele Mara's Belinda—smart, salty, and absolutely carrying this picture.
Editing
59 minutes of plot crammed in like they're racing the projector.
Director
George Blair
Adele Mara
Belinda Prentice
Mark Roberts
William Foresman III (as Robert Scott)
Lorna Gray
Judith Foresman (as Adrian Booth)
Robert Armstrong
Insp. Prentice
William Haade
Iggy Broty
Bob Steele
Chicago
Harry Shannon
Severance
Charles Evans
Jonathan Lowell
Joyce Compton
Emmy
Russell Hicks
Col. Bentry
Mary Gordon
Housekeeper
Paul E. Burns
Professor Ordson
Colin Campbell
Doctor
Edward Gargan
Big Mac
Patricia Knox
Waitress
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adele Mara was Republic Pictures' go-to leading lady for their 'budget noir' slate—she made five detective programmers in two years.
This was part of Hollywood's brief 1946-48 experiment with female PIs— studios testing if women could carry crime stories without romance subplots drowning them.
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