Sunday, January 22, 2012

Just Off Broadway (1942)


Twentieth-Century Fox
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Lloyd Nolan is Detective Michael Shayne. As a juror on a murder trial, he gets away with: hiding a murder weapon in the courtroom, drugging his roommate and leaving the hotel, sending letters and hand signals to the DA during the trial, interrupting the trial on numerous occasions to ask his own questions, introducing new evidence, including knives, hidden under his jacket and calling the prosecuting attorney to the witness stand. All believability is tossed right out the window.

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