66 minutes of 1945 fire-starting noir? Honey, that's a blazing good time.
Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.
Practical Effects
Gloriously unconvincing miniature fire sequences.
Acting
Robert Armstrong's gruff fire captain energy.
Director
Lew Landers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lew Landers directed over 100 B-pictures in his career; this was one of eight films he released in 1945 alone.
Released as post-war Americans confronted urban housing crises and fire safety scandals, giving its arson plot accidental topical bite.
US
