An insurance investigator tracks down an arson ring involved in insurance fraud.An insurance investigator tracks down an arson ring involved in insurance fraud.An insurance investigator tracks down an arson ring involved in insurance fraud.
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- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast.
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Decent Poverty Row Movie
Norman Foster is an insurance investigator. He's courting Evalyn Knapp in one of those high-speed movie romances. His boss, Sidney Blackmer, is in an arson scheme with Oscar Apfel.
It's a standard-looking Poverty Row B movie, varied somewhat by Mr.Apfel being Miss Knapp's uncle instead of her father, and by a fox-hunting sequence in the middle. The actors do good jobs, and the script has a couple of well-run fire sequences, the former in which Foster saves Apfel's dog from burning to death and the latter suggesting the Triangle Fire. There's nothing particularly wrong with this movie, but the extensive use of stock footage makes it clear this was not an expensive movie for Larry Darmour to produce.
The director, Burt Lynwood, is a bit of a mystery. He directed five movies in 1935, and that is all that can be found out about him by a Google search. He does a decent job with good actors and an okay script.
It's a standard-looking Poverty Row B movie, varied somewhat by Mr.Apfel being Miss Knapp's uncle instead of her father, and by a fox-hunting sequence in the middle. The actors do good jobs, and the script has a couple of well-run fire sequences, the former in which Foster saves Apfel's dog from burning to death and the latter suggesting the Triangle Fire. There's nothing particularly wrong with this movie, but the extensive use of stock footage makes it clear this was not an expensive movie for Larry Darmour to produce.
The director, Burt Lynwood, is a bit of a mystery. He directed five movies in 1935, and that is all that can be found out about him by a Google search. He does a decent job with good actors and an okay script.
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- boblipton
- Feb 22, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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