No comedy and no suspense make Jack a dull boy. Or, in this case, make this a dull movie. Charlie Ruggles is flat-out embarrassing as a would-be detective who calls himself a deflective. I usually like Una Merkel but in this movie she mostly just screams. Other reviewers appear to think the runaway train at the end was exciting, but for me it was just something tossed in to make the movie longer, or possibly to make up for the fact that the mystery itself was so uninteresting. I can just hear the producers saying, "Hey, let's add the old runaway train bit, so the audience will feel like they got their money's worth." Well, I just found it annoying. I expected a fun and humorous mystery, not some slapstick mess with a circus gorilla.
