Criminal Investigator (1942)

Tcriminal-investigatorhe busy climactic scene is the easy highlight of this mostly clumsy Monogram Pictures cheapie. Robert Lowery is a young reporter who happens to be on the scene when a dead woman is thrown out of a car in broad daylight. From there, he gets involved with the woman’s sister who has a bunch of crooks chasing her for the dead lady’s safety deposit box key. In just an hour, this squeezes in one unbelievably lazy plot-advancing coincidence and two filler musical numbers.