| Appointment
with Danger
Made in 1951, this effective crime film stars Alan Ladd
in the last of his film noir starring roles and was
directed by Lewis Allen who also directed Desert
Fury, So Evil My Love & Chicago
Deadline (which also stars Ladd). The story concerns
a special investigator for the U.S. post office named
Al Goddard (played by Ladd) who is assigned to collar
two criminals who've murdered a postal detective. To
begin his investigation Goddard must first locate the
only witness to the crime, a nun named Sister Augustine
(Phyllis Calvert). In an effort to infultrate the criminals
operation, Goddard poses as a crook and eventually gains
the confidence of the murderers' boss Earl Boettiger
(Paul Stewart) who has worked out a scheme to defraud
the post office of one million dollars. Once they've
realized the truth, the crooks take Goddard and the
nun prisoner, leading to a fight to the finish in a
lonely industrial district. The real highlight of this
film is the fact that both Jack Webb and Harry Morgan
of Dragnet fame play the bad guys. Webb plays an extremely
vicious killer who murders a man onscreen with a pair
of bronzed baby shoes!
video source quality
rating: B |
