This is an unusual blend of comedy and violence that combines nicely the different genres' elements. Powell, ever the debonair gentleman, plays a college professor whose sedate life with spouse Hart is given a sudden jolt when his old girl friend, Winters, re-enters his life. He agrees to
meet her for dinner to talk over old times. After their date Winters mysteriously disappears and all evidence points towards murder. Powell has been trying to get a prim and proper philanthropist to donate a sizable amount of cash to his school and knows any link with a murder case will dash
whatever hopes he has for the endowment. Before the police learn that Powell had been with...
Released:
1949
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins