
When a man is found with his face destroyed by fire in a fireplace, the prominent Police Detective Ray Patrick is assigned to the case. Soon he captures the singer Eden Lane, who was the man's mistress, and solves the case. Eden is sentenced to prison and while Ray is transporting her by train, she claims that she has just seen her lover alive in a train station. Ray believes the woman and helps her to escape to hunt the man. Meanwhile Police Captain Bert Rawley hunts the cou... (Full plot summary below)
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When a man is found with his face destroyed by fire in a fireplace, the prominent Police Detective Ray Patrick is assigned to the case. Soon he captures the singer Eden Lane, who was the man's mistress, and solves the case. Eden is sentenced to prison and while Ray is transporting her by train, she claims that she has just seen her lover alive in a train station. Ray believes the woman and helps her to escape to hunt the man. Meanwhile Police Captain Bert Rawley hunts the couple down.
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| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostVisually superb cross between the whodunit and the film noir crime thriller. |
| Slant MagazineViolet LuccaMost of its expressionist-tinged visual flourishes are withheld until the very end, with a final twist that's legitimately thrilling. |
| Movie ChambersPaul Chambers"Murder is my Beat" is not one of your better films of the film noir genre. But, this black & white thriller directed by Edgar G. Ulmer has enough going for it to permit a recommendation. |