eddie quillan give one of his bad performance a ellery queen . the plot involve the theft of a rare stamp and the murder that occur in it wake . quillan and a queen get involve with the mystery after he meet the owner when she arrive in new york by boat . the mystery itself be fine . i can even live with the cheapness of the production ( nothing look real ) . what i can not stand be the performance and no one in this cast with the exception of frank pangborn give anything remotely like a performance . can not anyone on screen act . i guess not . the bad offender be quillan who turn ellery queen into an insufferable twit . i want to smack him . charm or disarm he not . he ruin what could have be an okay bad movie . i hate this movie and i hate it a great deal .