Starring: Lloyd Hughes, June Collyer, Al St. John, and Lawrence Gray
Director: Robert Hill
Rating: Four of Ten Stars
When society reporter-trying-to-become-a-crimebeat-reporter Jean Monroe (Collyer) claims to have seen the face of the mysterious killer who is poisoning theatre people in the city, and that she intends to reveal his identity in a future column, she becomes his next target. Her fiance and fellow reporter Frank Gordon (Hughes) teams with criminologist and playwright Peter Fortune (Gray) to catch the killer before he claims Jean's life.
"A Face in the Fog" is one of those weakly written mysteries where there is only one possible suspect, who, concocting a really brilliant method of committing his murders, his subsequent actions are so dumb that even Barney Fife could have caught him while in the middle of a three-day moonshine bender. , but it moves along at such a pace that the viewer hardly have time to notice. The plot also doesn't make one bit of sense, nor do the reasons for who the killer chooses as his victims.
However, the film moves along at such a high pace and the actors actors perform with such charm and sincerety that I couldn't help but like it.
With its decent cast and a kernal of a good idea at its core, "A Face in the Fog" ends being a entertaining enough movie. I can't quite recommend you seek it out, but I also can't condemn it.)