Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt.
If you have seventy minutes to kill and love those dusty, fast-talking 1930s B-movies where everyone behaves like they just drank four cups of black coffee, then The Perfect Clue is actually a pretty fun ride. But look, if you cannot stand spoiled rich girls screaming at their fathers or plots that make zero logical se...
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"If you have seventy minutes to kill and love those dusty, fast-talking 1930s B-movies where everyone behaves like they just drank four cups of black coffee, then The Perfect Clue is actually a pretty fun ride. But look, if you cannot stand spoiled rich girls screaming at their fathers or plots that make zero logical sense, you are going to hate this within five minutes. I promise you. The whole thing starts because Mona (played by Dorothy Libaire) is mad that her rich dad is marrying some woman ..."
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