Two oilmen race each other to see who will be the first to hit a gusher. Terrifically tense, suspenseful melodrama. Superior courtroom melodrama from Terence Rattigan's play, headed by Donat as barrister defending innocent boy. Twenty years after his father was executed for a crime he didn't commit, his son searches for the real criminal. Fairly good espionage melodrama.
Strong drama made in Florida, heavy on the violence, deserves credit as an attempt to be different.
A young man falsely accused of murder, escapes from the police and sets out after the killer. The very appealing Pilbeam becomes convinced of de Marney's innocence and joins in the search with more fervor than de Marney himself. The film's high point is a tracking shot which begins over a crowded ballroom and ends on an extreme closeup of the twitching eyes of the killer. Legendary Wild Bill is touted as the fast gun goodguy of the West.