Girl in Danger

"Girl in Danger" (1934) is the fourth of four Inspector Trent movies which starred Ralph Bellamy, quick little mystery/detective films from Columbia Pictures. It's well-put-together and easy to watch and short (57 minutes). If you let it go right afterwards then-and-there, all is well. If you sit and think about it, oops... The show is so impossible as to never have occurred! A girl (Grey, in the opening shot) is in a night club with another girl and two men, and Grey is complaining endlessly about how bored she is, how life is uninteresting, how nothing ever happens, how she needs some excitement to feel alive. Well, she spots a man sitting by himself in the club. She wonders who he is. A man sitting with her (I never found out if he was her date or not!!) happens to be someone working in the prosecutor's office and knows who the man is. He's a known crook. She asks her man with her to go say to the man that she'd like to meet him. Well, the man (Charles Sabin) ends up alone at the table with her. She leaves with the man and drives his car to a destination...where he steals a famous emerald. So begins the caper. It gets crazier and crazier - - - though it's a fun ride! Ward Bond is an evil henchman, and he works for crime boss J. Carrol Naish. Turns out Sabin was working independently this time, but usually he works for Naish, too. Well, he shouldn't have worked independently. And, as we already knew, Grey shouldn't have wished for what she wished for. Sometimes it's possible to get it...

Worth the watch. Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Charles Sabin, Arthur Hohl, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, and lots of others.