M ★★★ 1951:  Crime Film-Noir- High Quality [1:28:00]
Channel: ReelVideos
Date: 2024-04-05

Los Angeles is plagued by a child killer who keeps the shoes of his victims as souvenirs. With no leads, police shake down all the disreputable joints and bring in the mentally ill in an effort to find the killer. In actuality, the killer is mousy Martin Harrow who has a history of mental illness. At the same time, Charlie Marshall, the kingpin of the crime rackets in the city, concludes that the child killer is bad for their business. And so he mobilises his people on the street to conduct a manhunt for the killer.

Martin W. Harrow is a compulsive child-murderer, and the public demands of the mayor and police that he be caught. The police start a crackdown on criminal operations, dive bars and hangouts in the city, hoping that the murderer will turn up in one of the many raids. This pressure is preventing the city's crime syndicate from doing business, and its boss {Marshall}, organizes his forces to find and stop the murderer so that the police will stop the crackdown and the mob can go back to business as usual. Meanwhile, Police Inspector Carney has a psychiatrist examining patients who have been released from mental hospitals as possible suspects.

At the same time that the police focus on Harrow, finding incriminating evidence. The shoes of the dead children in his apartment. The criminals track him down with his intended next victim. They capture him, and place him on trial by his "peers" in the Los Angeles criminal underworld. I won't go any further with details of the movie or I would give away the ending. Enjoy!