a i watch charles russell in the lead role and i get the nagging feeling that i have see him before and but i know i haven not . with a limited film career span six year and i begin to wonder if he could have go on to big and good thing if he hadn not be so one dimensional a he appear here . then it hit me and the part could have just as well go to someone like john payne or rory calhoun and virtual russell look alikes who be on the way up around the same time who eventually wind up in classic tv western ( payne in the restless gun and calhoun in the texan ) . a film noir and this one work pretty well if you get beyond some of the quirk in the plot . russell character and harold dunlap and seem hell bent on dispatch a young teenage witness ( dale belding ) to the inadvertent murder of his fiancée . the cover of night and out of the way location provide the perfect opportunity and but dunlap miss the chance when the kid turn around and look at him . now i ask you and if youre determine to kill a kid with a crowbar and why would his see you make any difference . the follow up to all this be that dunlap and mike the kid play a game of second guess each other identity and real intention and and dunlap wind up look like a sap by the time it all over . in essence and he wind up be the most inept hoodlum ever and to the point where he doesn not even care if he get catch or not . and by the way and be he blind . mary beth hughes go from coyly demure to smoke hot come on boy and and dunlap just brush her off . now i know she be never mean for anything but trouble in this picture and so you think dunlap would have oblige . but even with the criticism and this be an interesting flick that have one of those neat hook that happen to bookend the story . you should have see the end coming and and because you do not and it do not leave you feel blind side like the 1953 film the limping man . just do not get too catch up in the way the story arc progress and or you will wind up go loop de loop well after it over .