This
Poverty Row noir film is directed by
Budd Boetticher and stars
Richard Carlson as Ross Stewart, a dime-store detective who's just opened shop. Literally before the paint has dried on his office door, he gets his first case. Kathy Lawrence (
Lucille Bremer), a pretty newspaper reporter, desires to hire Stewart to help her find a crooked judge who is wanted by the police. She has already done some investigating on her own and believes that he is hiding out in a private sanitarium. Stewart is to enter the mental hospital disguised as a patient and find out for sure if the judge has refuge there. Even though Stewart befriends a kindly orderly, he also gets abuse from the sadistic caretaker. Being a low-budget film there really aren't that many other patients to be seen with the exception of the dangerous inmate "Champ" (
Tor Johnson) who blindly beats up whomever is in his path believing that he is in the wrestling ring.
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