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An alcoholic struggling author is accused of murdering his publisher and sets out to discover the real killer, but is hampered by his inability to recall the events around the killing, including his plot for a potential new murder...
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"This was the directorial debut of Robert Gordon, whose debut is however not of earth-shaking importance, as he never shook the earth later on. The film is an entertaining low-budget B murder mystery, and Chester Morris and Constance Dowling both overact. Morris especially over-does it as a particularly obnoxious drunk early in the film. This is unfortunate, as the story requires us to have sympathy for him later on, and those who find abusive drunks hard to tolerate will have to be strong. The chief merit of this film is an extraordinarily ingenious twist to the 'murder in a locked room&a..."
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(at around 20 mins) The bartender talks about feeling for the alcoholic binge Jeffrey Andrews is on because of a movie he just saw about a writer hocking his typewriter for cash for drinks. This is a reference to The Lost Weekend (1945) starring Ray Milland. Both films deal with an alcoholic writer. Constance Dowling, who plays Evelyn Green, is the sister of Doris Dowling, who plays Gloria, the barfly Milland's character flirts with in that film.
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An alcoholic struggling author is accused of murdering his publisher and sets out to discover the real killer, but is hampered by his inability to recall the events around the killing, including his plot for a potential new murder...