A sultry noir with Sterling Hayden & Gloria Graham directed by Jerry Hopper and written by several writers...it's 86 breakneck minutes of hard-boiled melodrama. Hayden is a cop with a record of brutality that costs him his job but not his determination to nail nasty Gene Barry, whom he is sure is a cop killer who's been terrorizing the city. Hayden is excellent in a role he was born to play and Grahame is, as always, great as a bad/good girl (though her singing is dubbed and dubbed poorly...Hollywood always had a problem with that!). Hopper's direction is fine with the pacing so fast you forgive the film if its not particularly stylish. One can't help but wonder what a Nicholas Ray or Robert Wise would have brought to this.
Review of Naked Alibi
Naked Alibi
(1954)
A sultry noir with Sterling Hayden & Gloria Graham
23 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers