The title comes from name of a book, which I think was used by the lead actress to blackmail for $15,000. The story also consists of some half-assed attempt to create a ghastly mystery, but it's pretty much a fail aside from ocassional hilarity. The best part of the movie is really the schemed used by the femme fatale to murder the unsuspected. I mean, it's Elevator to the Gallows in a literal sense, and the amount of details putting into showing the elevator tricks is rather inspired. Yeah, it's lame, but pretty damned entertaining all the same.
May 19, 2009
#177: The Port of 40 Thieves (1944)
The title comes from name of a book, which I think was used by the lead actress to blackmail for $15,000. The story also consists of some half-assed attempt to create a ghastly mystery, but it's pretty much a fail aside from ocassional hilarity. The best part of the movie is really the schemed used by the femme fatale to murder the unsuspected. I mean, it's Elevator to the Gallows in a literal sense, and the amount of details putting into showing the elevator tricks is rather inspired. Yeah, it's lame, but pretty damned entertaining all the same.
