A wrong headed action yarn starring Glenn Ford & Evelyn Keyes. Ford has returned to the States after a stint in the military to find his gambling establishment has been taken over. Robbing the place & hightailing it back to his stomping grounds in a stolen car, Ford manages to get to a bickering couple (friends of his) to hole up in their apartment. When the cops are called because the husband is a habitual wife beater & bell ringer (the building is more annoyed by the latter), Ford pretends to be the hubby so he can be safely in custody since the robbed party are on his tail. Keyes, a social worker, pleads his case & since the Christmas season is upon them, Ford is encouraged to hang out w/her at a community center to help out (put up decorations & the like) & when he finally confesses to Keyes his true identity, he manages to even fall in love. W/a plot that bounces back in forth to noirish suspense & comedic hi-jinks (Ford falls from a ladder landing on top of a piano, breaking it), the two directors, Henry Levin & Gordon Douglas, seem to have made 2 different films & neither one is much compelling. Also starring John Ireland who plays a newspaper columnist.
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