For all his sleuthing skill, The Lone Wolf (Warren William) never did figure out that the murdered Pete Rennick (Roger Pryor) was the ex-husband of Joan Bradley (Jean Muir). Seems like that plot element was a little hard to swallow, even if the guy faked his own death some time before.
It seems like there were more than a few lapses in logic during the story. Another big one occurred right at the very end when Jamison (Eric Blore) showed up in a rowboat with Miss Bradley. Since the killer Van Wyck (Robert Emmett Keane) kidnapped her in the taxi and taunted Michael Lanyard with the information, how did she manage to hook up with Jamison?
Ah well, you probably weren't supposed to pay such close attention to these stories back in the Forties. The pictures were churned out on a pretty tight budget and rewrites would probably have put a lot of these productions behind the eight ball. Overlooking such consistencies allowed one to have a pretty good time trying to figure out the murder mystery. The bit with the phony necklace was a pretty good ruse so that made things interesting. Inspector Crane (Thurston Hall) turned out to be a pretty good chap through it all, seeing as how he was constantly outfoxed and hogtied by Lanyard. Considering how ineffective he was, he could have served a dual role and played his own sidekick.
It seems like there were more than a few lapses in logic during the story. Another big one occurred right at the very end when Jamison (Eric Blore) showed up in a rowboat with Miss Bradley. Since the killer Van Wyck (Robert Emmett Keane) kidnapped her in the taxi and taunted Michael Lanyard with the information, how did she manage to hook up with Jamison?
Ah well, you probably weren't supposed to pay such close attention to these stories back in the Forties. The pictures were churned out on a pretty tight budget and rewrites would probably have put a lot of these productions behind the eight ball. Overlooking such consistencies allowed one to have a pretty good time trying to figure out the murder mystery. The bit with the phony necklace was a pretty good ruse so that made things interesting. Inspector Crane (Thurston Hall) turned out to be a pretty good chap through it all, seeing as how he was constantly outfoxed and hogtied by Lanyard. Considering how ineffective he was, he could have served a dual role and played his own sidekick.