Lee Bowman

Marguerite Chapman

Edgar Buchanan

George Macready

Lee Patrick

Jonathan Hale

Elisabeth Risdon

J. Edward Bromberg

Miles Mander

Moroni Olsen

Mary Field

Katherine Emery

Bess Flowers

Robert Ryan

Noel Cravat

Julio Abadía

Steve Benton

David Bond

Charles Cane

Edmund Cobb

Gary Del Mar

Forrest Dickson

Franklin Dix

Johnny Duncan

Ralph Dunn

Jack Ellis

Fred Godoy

Wanda Perry

Charles Lawton Jr.

Albert J. Cohen

Wilfred H. Petitt

Lothar Mendes

Jo Eisinger

Marlin Skiles

Gene Havlick

Crime

Mystery

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

United States of America

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This is really all about the last ten minutes as we quite entertainingly finish off this otherwise unremarkable drama. "Gilbert" (Lee Bowman) is a red-top journalist who loves nothing more than a good old dose of salacious rumour-mongering. His life takes a more serious turn when his friend is murdered. The man was a priest, and the mystery deepens when we discover that his two bibles are being sought by the menacing "Stoker" (George Macready). Why? Well one of them contains a code that will lead to the secret hiding place of a priceless Da Vinci painting. The police suspect that maybe "Pat" aka "Laura" (Marguerite Chapman) is somehow involved, so she and our gossip-pedlar join forces hoping to find it (and some romance) first, or at least to stay alive! It's a bit better than your standard afternoon feature this and that's almost entirely down to the sparingly featured Macready and to Edgar Buchanan's contributions as "Bradford" - and I did quite like the carefully choreographed cellar-denouement. Nope, you'll never remember it, and it could probably lose twenty minutes of waffly preamble, but it's not bad.

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