Years before T.V. made him a hero with "Perry Mason" and "Ironside", Raymond Burr was a first class film villain, whether in film noir or sword and sandal epics like "Magic Carpet". Here, he's a crook who holds his finger over governor Raymond Greenleaf, and anxiously attempts to get his hands on some F.B.I. files complete with fingerprints. This leads to an interesting sequence where the F.B.I. fingerprinting system is shown in great detail and how vast it really all is. The F.B.I. girl (Margia Dean) pays for stealing a file with her life and it is up to her roommate (Audrey Totter) to aid agents Cesar Romero and George Brent in finding the killer(s). This leads to a magnificent show-down between good and evil and how ruthless ambitions from politicians like Greenleaf can lead to their downfall.
There's also a T.V. show seen in the movie which features a young Peter ("Pete") Marshall doing a comic sketch with Tommy Noonan. Marie Blake ("Grandma" Addams and Jeanette MacDonald's sister) has an amusing cameo as a drunken landlady and sex-pot Joi Lansing is memorable as a moll. The film is cleverly structured in semi-documentary style which greatly aids in its pacing. The majority of Lippert's films were weakly produced but this is probably one of their best.
There's also a T.V. show seen in the movie which features a young Peter ("Pete") Marshall doing a comic sketch with Tommy Noonan. Marie Blake ("Grandma" Addams and Jeanette MacDonald's sister) has an amusing cameo as a drunken landlady and sex-pot Joi Lansing is memorable as a moll. The film is cleverly structured in semi-documentary style which greatly aids in its pacing. The majority of Lippert's films were weakly produced but this is probably one of their best.