DESTINATION MURDER-1950-Stanley Clements (6 years before replacing Leo Gorcey in The Bowery Boys series) is Jackie Wales, a telegram delivery boy who kills a man for club owner Mr. Armitage (Albert Dekker) who likes to talk in the third person. The dead man's daughter Laura (Joyce MacKenzie) suspects Jackie and begins dating him. Later she gets a job as a cigarette girl in the club where manager Stretch Norton (Hurd Hatfield) puts the moves on her. Armitage's mistress (Myrna Dell) gets Jackie involved in blackmail and eventually his own murder. It turns out Norton is actually the brains of the operation.
After Jackie's killed (it's not shown; his character seems to have
just been written out) it turns into a revenge love story focusing on
Laura and her relationship with Norton.
Star Joyce MacKenzie played
Jane to Lex Barker's Tarzan in TARZAN AND THE SHE DEVIL. James
Flavin is a police lieutenant and John Dehner is another suspect.
Future star of THE WEREWOLF Steve Ritch has a bit role.
A great vocal
band Steve Gibson's Red Caps plays in the club. You can read about
them here: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/redcaps.html
There's actually a lot of strange twists in this little
murder mystery directed by Edward L. Cahn a few years before he made
some of the greatest low budget horror and Sci-Fi movies of all time.
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