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Not exactly an unusual plot

posted 18 years ago by AlanSquier
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But Paul Lukas and Jerome Cowan are enough to persuade me. And I always liked Cornell Woolrich's mysteries anyway, eve when they sound hackneyed.

Captain Warren 'Rip' Murdock: I'm the brass-knuckles-in-the-teeth-to-dance-time type.

[–] franzkabuki 10 years ago

I must be missing something here, but I didn't quite get why did the sailor and Hayward embark on that murder hunt in the first place - couldn't they have just gone their merry ways and that would have been it? As can be seen later on, the fuzz had nothing incriminating on the guy and, of course, even less on the broad.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] mdonln 9 years ago

why did the sailor and Hayward embark on that murder hunt in the first place - couldn't they have just gone their merry ways and that would have been it?

They could have but the young sailor thought he might have had something to do with the woman's death. He knew he was there with her. He sees his handwriting on the pad so he knows he was there between ten and eleven yet he couldn't account for that time. He couldn't know for sure unless the real killer is found.

June feels sorry for him. She knows he's easy pickings; he'll get blamed and since he doesn't remember he'll pay for something he didn't do. He's a good kid who needed a break so she stayed to help him clear his name, for his own sake, in time for him to catch his train as scheduled.

Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

[–] Doghouse-6 9 years ago

Here's what you may have missed:

JUNE: "Cut and run now. Forget all this, get on your bus...

ALEX: "They'll catch me. Her brother knew I came up here to fix her radio and I told him all about myself. I'd be the first one they'd look for."

Poe! You are...avenged!