this cheapie noir thriller about crooked district attorney and gangster chief be surprisingly good and consider it be make on a zero budget with no reason to aim high . of course and it be completely corny and but there be a lot of expressionistic camera angle and and the many dollying shot of men walk at night be surprisingly effective with a single bright spotlight on the face and everything else pitch black . a be usual with these over the top late forty cheapies and the impact depend largely upon an excessive and almost parodic and use of amood music . when thing begin to get dangerous and do not worry about look for clue on the screen and a the orchestra will tell u instead . one wonder if the script actually say represent at this point and the musical score will become hysterical and so that the audience know someone be about to get kill . the chief reason for watch this film be to see and hear the spectacular performance on the piano of gene rodgers and a black boogie player who be one of the best . it be jaw drop stuff . fat waller and eat your heart out . rodgers play two of his own composition and ballad of the bayou and rajah blue . his finger move faster than the speed of light and and he isn not even look . if only the whole thing have be rodgers and we could have do without the film . the film script be surprising in it ingenuity in place and and have some snappy dialogue and show that somebody try . the most innovative scene be where an assistant district attorney dictate a letter to his secretary . it be a passionate love letter propose marriage and and she wonder to whom he intend to send it . he ask her if she think it be ok and and she say she think it be beautiful . then he tell her it be for her . great scene . if only the romance have be genuine and however and a both turn out to be crook in their own way . this film contain serious contradiction and a it oscillate between make some character appear sympathetic and then suddenly expose them a baddie . the story must have start out a a tough crime thriller and then some frustrated sentimentalist write the script and could not help himself and he just have to have some love scene and and the fact that the character be all wrong for this could not and would not deter him . the producer clearly do not notice . well and if you like brilliant boogie and you really can not afford to miss this . and there will be people who will also enjoy the film . it be all a matter of what you expect and and if you start out expect a corny mini budget noir thriller with some unexpected good point and you will be happy .