3/10
Before Every Household Had Its Own TV Set
8 November 2023
This harmless second feature offers another sympathetic Lon Chaney monster, pretty period ingenues, 1950s automobiles, and picturesque downtown LA locations including the Angel Flight Railway. It's mercifully restricted to 72 minutes, with help from voice-of-authority narration, always a weakness but suitable to a faux documentary style. DP John Russell subsequently did a lot of black and white TV work. The underground police search paid homage to "The Third Man" (1949), to which this show cannot be properly compared. The "pop-the-question" drive-in scene leaves the audience with a "warm glow."
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