Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
An FBI agent (Dennis O' Keefe) teams up with a Scotland Yard detective (Louis Hayward) to investigate information leaks believed to be from a Communist spy network who have infiltrated a southern California atomic research center.
Typical post WWII anti Communist scare tactics made all the more believable and authentic by the documentary style voice over. Good location work in San Francisco helps the first half of the film before the action hots up in the second half.
Hayward and O' Keefe are fine and parts of the script are quite clever but in the end this is just a run of the mill police procedural pot boiler made to combat the 'Red Scare'.
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