The first is guest and popular actor Claude Akins in double role as Cop Al Reardon and the lookalike hit man. ( I do wonder if the lookalike hit man is ever caught for the loanshark's murder at the beginning.) Reardon is a man of much dimension. It turns out he is not a self-pitying drunk of a cop ( which we first thought) but a man concerned for his institutionalized and highly disturbed wife. The other great performance is by great beauty Marj Dusay as a nightclub singer caught up in the murder. She is mysterious, slightly guilty and highly appealing in her smaller in number but still significant scenes.
Review of Mask for a Charade
