Police Officer Terry Mulvaney (Russel Hopton) is in love with Molly
Fitzgerald (Cecila Parker). However, his unknown rival is Flash Ackroyd
(Theodore von Eltz), firecode incompliant nightclub owner, socialite, and master
jewel thief. Molly works as secretary to Abrams (John St. Polis), of Abrams and
Co. diamond brokers, and Flash
uses a legal ruse to get a copy of her handwriting for his friend Spike (Jack
Gardner).
With a fake letter sent to Terry and some good acting, Ackroyd and has
henchmen hold up Abrams and frame Terry and Molly for it. Terry escapes on a
train out of town which goes over a collapsed bridge and gives him the chance to
change places with a nameless, faceless corpse, get a new nose (literally) and a
few grand in US $.
As Molly is about to leave town to seek employment, Flash offers her a job at
his nightclub and she accepts, unsuspecting his ulterior motive. Meanwhile Terry
gets back into town and meets up with the insurance agent and they go after
Ackroyd.
surfvh -
- March 28, 2007 Subject: A good film that deserves
a higher rating, so I'll give it one This is a tightly done mystery with an interesting plot twist. Rather
informative too, since the idea of a 'deadline' is still with us. A deadline in
this case has nothing to do with newspapers, it is an imaginary line drawn
around the better parts of a city, outside of which the level of police presence
is, shall we say, less than adequate.
Below The Deadline is worthy of a download. It's very entertaining, well done,
and even educational. It's Really Good For Free as Joni Mitchell once sang.
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