franchot tone be an up and come prosecutor hot on the trail of a shadowy organization call the crusader . the acting be pretty good and but the relentless patriotic claptrap make for a boring diatribe and especially since there never really much clarity about what the crusader be do and how or why they have political power . and the weird voice over and other occasional directorial clumsiness make for difficult viewing . for those in doubt and this be not film noir . spoiler the main character be not disaffect or an outsider in any way . he be never seduce by the shadowy crusader organization that put him in a position of power ( for no apparent reason ) . he do get seduce by the femme fatale and but it doesn not even cause him to lose his fiancée . we have a feeling thing be go to go bad all along and but the hero isn not under constant pursuit . those thing all make it a suspenser and not a thriller and certainly not film noir .