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Half a Sinner

USA 1940
produced by
Al Christie, Jack H. Skirball for Universal
directed by Al Christie
starring Heather Angel, John 'Dusty' King, Constance Collier, Tom Dugan, Henry Brandon, William B.Davidson, Clem Bevans, Robert Elliott, Joe Devlin, Walter Catlett, Emma Dunn, Fern Emmett, Sonny Bupp, Wilbur Mack
screenplay by Frederick J. Jackson, based on the story Lady Takes a Chance by Dalton Trumbo

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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School Teacher Anne (Heather Angel) leads the most boring of lives ... so one day, she dresses up and goes to town - not figuratively, literally -, and before you know it, she has stolen a car, just because the guy who owned the car (Henry Brandon) got a bit fresh. It's not long before Anne has picked up a good-looking stranger, Cameron (John 'Dusty' King), and both the police and a gangster (Tom Dugan) are on her tail ... because there's two things she doesn't know about the car she has stolen: It was already stolen from someone else, and there's a corpse in the back the gangster and his boss (William B.Davidson) desperately want back because there's incriminating evidence on him.

Eventually, Anne and Cameron come to realize the predicament they are in, and they do their best to stay out of the clutches of law and outlaws alike, even if that means dragging a shrewd old lady, Mrs Breckenridge (Constance Collier), into the mix ... but eventually, same Mrs Breckenridge helps them out of a situation with the gangsters in a house they have broken into - which turns out to be Cameron's own house, just like the car is actually Cameron's. You see, when Cameron hailed Anne driving his car, it was actually his intention to get it back, but somehow he seems to have fallen in love with her, so he figured it best to join her in her shenanigans to lead her back to the path of virtue. Be that as it may, there's still the corpse in the car, and there are still the gangsters after them - so Anne and Cameron decide to just return the car and corpse to where it was before her taking it and act as if nothing had happened ... but then the gangsters decide they want to remove them permanently, as they are somehow witnesses - but again Mrs Breckenridge (who has called in the cops) arrives just in time to save the day.

And in the end, Anne gets the man, even.

 

Light-footed romantic crime comedy of the B variety that can't escape the accusation of being shallow. Sure, it has its funny moments and is never as moronic as it could have been, but it also completely lacks depth, its characters remain two-dimensional throughout, and the story could have done with a more convincing set-up and a few more twists and turns along the way. As for the acting, Heather Angel has her moments but is never given anything to really shine, while John 'Dusty' King, a man more familiar from Westerns, sure is likeable enough to fill his role but doesn't even attempt to shine, comedy-wise.

In all, there's way worse out there, even on the B romantic crime comedy segment - but that's not reason enough to watch this one ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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