Richard Travis

Sheila Ryan

Sid Melton

Tom Neal

Margia Dean

Lyle Talbot

Michael Whalen

Richard Emory

Dee Tatum

George Eldredge

Rory Mallinson

Karl 'Killer' Davis

Zon Murray

Syra Marty

Roy Butler

Dick Gordon

Forbes Murray

John Roy

Larry Steers

Ferris Taylor

Jack Greenhalgh

Carl Pierson

Sigmund Neufeld

Dudley Chambers

Stanley Neufeld

Harry Reynolds

Bert Shefter

Glen Glenn

Ray Mercer

Paul Stanhope

Sam Newfield

Tom Kemp

Harry Reif

Bert Sternbach

Alfred Berke

Orville H. Hampton

Rupert Hughes

Crime

Drama

Fingerprints Don't Lie

Spartan Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

When the mayor is bumped off, the local police force conclude that it must have been "Moody" (Richard Emory) because all the fingerprint evidence points to him. He, of course, protests his innocence and luckily local journalist "Evans" (Rory Mallinson) takes up the cudgels creating just enough doubt in the forensic expert's mind to have him think twice. "Stover" (Richard Travis) has every faith in his science but gradually, working with "Carolyn" (Sheila Ryan) - the daughter of the murdered man - he is faced with the prospect that there has been some manipulation going on. Back to square one? Who is the real culprit? This is a perfectly watchable crime drama that tries to develop the role of new technology in policing, and one that also points out that the infallible is rarely that. It can't have had much of a budget, so neither the acting nor the writing is particularly noteworthy, and I found the ending to be just a little too convenient, but it passes an hour effortlessly enough.

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