This film is worth watching primarily for its excellent dialog, which has to keep you alert from beginning to end, for actually everything happens in the dialog. There are gangsters and murders, of course, some false woman, many night club sleazy scenes, and Van Johnson trying to sort things out of an impossible mess which keeps him worried, but his wife even more. The actual story of the film is the conflict between a cop's job and his wife's reasonable efforts to try to keep him out of it, which efforts constantly fail since his job keeps dragging him down into it, especially since one of his colleagues after the other are getting murdered. It's a complicated plot, it is as difficult for the viewer to figure out the muddle as it is for Van Johnson, but it all makes sense and reaches a logical conclusion. It is a virtuoso crime film noir with cops and killers, and there are some great dramatic highlights. The music, which is interesting to note, is actually by Andre Previn when he was still very fresh and young in Hollywood..
Review of Scene of the Crime
