NAKED ALIBI-Universal Int.-(1954)-Gene Barry (a year after WAR OF THE WORLDS) is a psycho cop killer leading a double life. In California he's a baker. In Mexico he's a gangster. Sterling Hayden plays the disbarred cop out to nail him. Gloria Grahame (still riding the high time of her Oscar win 2 years before) is Barry's moll south of the border who gets to sing a song.
Director Jerry Hopper (who later became busy in TV) gives this improbable tale a stylish film noir feel. Also featuring little Billy Chapin (who was in TOBOR THE GREAT the same year) and future TV "Rifleman" star Chuck Connors. Hayden starred in JOHNNY GUITAR and SUDDENLY (with Frank Sinatra) the same year. Despite her Academy Award Grahame would fall on hard times and end her career in horror junk like BLOOD AND LACE and THE NESTING.
NAKED ALIBI is no classic but enjoyable anyway!
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