A fascinating account of a criminal case solved almost entirely by science. Director John Sturges underlines this aspect by throwing in a wealth of detail about painstaking police work, employing semi-documentary techniques similar to those in the British classic of crime detection, The Blue Lamp. Good acting from a cast that includes Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, Betsy Blair, Elsa Lanchester - in viciously fine form as the murder victim's avaricious landlady - and Jan Sterling.


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