***SPOILERS*** Far fetched movie about violations in the state parole board that has convicts, in many cases convicted of first degree murder, sprung after a few years behind bars by them or their associates paying off the members of the board up to $2,000.00 in under the table cash.
It's that fine and splendid red headed Irish lad Michael O'Shea, who incidentally was actually born on Saint Patrick Day, who stars in the film playing three different roles as Government Agent Richard Hendricks as well as on the lamb hoodlum Richard Murdock who at the same time is using the fake name Rick Carson. We first see Hendricks/Carson/Murdock in traction at a local hospital after being worked over by the Barney Rodescu, Turhan Bey, gang who caught him red handed trying to record their conversions with a hidden wire, tape wasn't available then to the public, recorder. This spoiled the entire suspense in the film by knowing that Hendricks was to survive whatever deadly obstacles he was to confront in the movie.
Were then subjected to a long and boring flashback from Hendricks, who looks like Boris Karloff in "The Mummy", about how he got that way in trying to uncover the state parole system and the criminals that run it. It turns out that the two top members of the board are accepting bribe money to let dangerous convicts off on their promises that they go straight which in reality is straight back to their life in crime. Hendricks at first wins the confidence of the corrupt board members and their #1 shyster or mouthpiece Barney Rodescu until the partner of Murduck whom Hendricks is impersonating shows up at their hideout, known as "The Farm", and exposes him as a fraud.
***SPOILERS*** Beaten up and shot as well as slated to be whacked Hendricks is saved by the bell by a squad of leather jacketed state police lead by Police Commissioner Hughes, Lyle Talbot, just in the nick of time to put an end to their plans to murder him and thus keep from releasing, for under the table cash of course, dozens of dangerous criminals into the public. There's also the beautiful Evelyn Anker as JoJo Dumont who runs the notorious Past-time café that's a front for shyster Rodescu's gang. It's JoJo who later gets second thoughts, when Rodesco & Co. plan to murder Hendricks, and switches sides, from the bad to the good guys, just before the action or police raid begins.
It's that fine and splendid red headed Irish lad Michael O'Shea, who incidentally was actually born on Saint Patrick Day, who stars in the film playing three different roles as Government Agent Richard Hendricks as well as on the lamb hoodlum Richard Murdock who at the same time is using the fake name Rick Carson. We first see Hendricks/Carson/Murdock in traction at a local hospital after being worked over by the Barney Rodescu, Turhan Bey, gang who caught him red handed trying to record their conversions with a hidden wire, tape wasn't available then to the public, recorder. This spoiled the entire suspense in the film by knowing that Hendricks was to survive whatever deadly obstacles he was to confront in the movie.
Were then subjected to a long and boring flashback from Hendricks, who looks like Boris Karloff in "The Mummy", about how he got that way in trying to uncover the state parole system and the criminals that run it. It turns out that the two top members of the board are accepting bribe money to let dangerous convicts off on their promises that they go straight which in reality is straight back to their life in crime. Hendricks at first wins the confidence of the corrupt board members and their #1 shyster or mouthpiece Barney Rodescu until the partner of Murduck whom Hendricks is impersonating shows up at their hideout, known as "The Farm", and exposes him as a fraud.
***SPOILERS*** Beaten up and shot as well as slated to be whacked Hendricks is saved by the bell by a squad of leather jacketed state police lead by Police Commissioner Hughes, Lyle Talbot, just in the nick of time to put an end to their plans to murder him and thus keep from releasing, for under the table cash of course, dozens of dangerous criminals into the public. There's also the beautiful Evelyn Anker as JoJo Dumont who runs the notorious Past-time café that's a front for shyster Rodescu's gang. It's JoJo who later gets second thoughts, when Rodesco & Co. plan to murder Hendricks, and switches sides, from the bad to the good guys, just before the action or police raid begins.