Gene Raymond directed this film and plays the main protagonist, committing the perfect crime with all prospects of getting away with it, until he, naturally, meets a dame in trouble, who is harassed by a vicious scoundrel of a ruthless cynical blackmailer, who succeeds in getting them both into trouble. The journey was planned to go to Shanghai, it gets no further than Honolulu, and there there is an awkward return to San Francisco. The play-acting is good, the story and plot is good, the unexpected turnings are very appropriate, so it's indeed a noir of the better kind, and there are some striking parallels to the notoriously famous "Detour" some year earlier, except that here the villain is a man, while the one woman gains in favors the more she tells about herself. Finally we see the crime, and we can judge for ourselves about her true nature. It is only a B-noir, but it offers full satisfaction.
Review of Million Dollar Weekend
