Zucco really stands out as a plain-clothes policeman. George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Coburn, Robert Coote, Alan Napier, George Zucco and Alan Mowbray round out this incredibly talented cast. The cast is one of the most complete I have seen in some time. What you get here is a lot of talk and character studies. If you are looking for a lot of action - look somewhere else. Karloff has roughly 5 minutes of screen time, but boy does he know how to use it. Along the way she comes in contact with a slaving-like operation and a bizarre eccentric fashion designer played with incredible gusto by Boris Karloff. She begins to answer personal ads by men looking for attractive young women. Ball plays a dance hall girl that loses a friend and decides to help by joining the Scotland Yard force. Director Douglas Sirk, later best-known for sappy Hollywood melodramas, makes this early Lucille Ball vehicle about a killer that writes poetry to the police about the victim he is going to kill.
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