Tom Conway has just promised his lady love to not take any more cases, when Mona Maris asks him to help recover a painting of her. It turns out that the painter has been dead for fifteen years, and it's of a lady who died a couple of years ago, which eventually sends Conway down to Mexico with the painter's daughter, Martha Vickers. There the case grows a bit more tangled amidst all the cantina entertainment that RKO can provide on a B budget, plus more of the worst backscreen work I've ever seen, of Conway and a lady walking past a central square somewhere in Mexico.
Shoddy technicals aside, this is another Falcon movie with a nice little mystery story, and Frank Redman's usual fine camerawork -- except for that darned backscreen. Director William Berke doesn't add much oomph to the movie, and there is a shortage of pretty, underdressed girls, but you can't have everything.
Shoddy technicals aside, this is another Falcon movie with a nice little mystery story, and Frank Redman's usual fine camerawork -- except for that darned backscreen. Director William Berke doesn't add much oomph to the movie, and there is a shortage of pretty, underdressed girls, but you can't have everything.