Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby..
Is it worth your time? If you like movies that move at the speed of a caffeinated squirrel, maybe. If you want a logical mystery, absolutely not. Fans of 1930s fast-talk will have a blast, but anyone looking for, like, a coherent plot might wanna skip this one. Joan Bennett is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. She pl...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies that move at the speed of a caffeinated squirrel, maybe. If you want a logical mystery, absolutely not. Fans of 1930s fast-talk will have a blast, but anyone looking for, like, a coherent plot might wanna skip this one. Joan Bennett is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. She plays Eve, a manicurist who decides she’s basically a detective now. It’s pretty funny how she just walks into a newspaper office and suddenly she’s a star reporter. Nobody asks for ..."
James Edward Grant, Bert Hanlon, Raoul Walsh
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