Warner Bros.
Directed by Vincent Sherman
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Terminally ill philosophy professor Thomas Mitchell decides that he will spend his final six months by committing a "socially beneficial" murder. The perfect candidate falls into his lap in the form of wealthy art dealer Mona Maris. She is blackmailing a painter friend of the professor into making fake works of art and then selling them as originals. He confirms that her personal life is just as reprehensible, then shoots her dead one night. Initially the artist is charged with murder, but the professor confesses and is sentenced to death. In the production code-mandated ending he realizes the error of his ways. A ludicrous plot and hollow ending ruin this early effort from prolific director Sherman.
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