****SPOILERS**** The usually ending up with the short end of the stick Hugo Haas ends up on top here for once. Haas plays a duel role as twin brothers Gus & David Hilmer who ends up confusing his wife Julie, Cleo Moore, and her boyfriend Gus's ace car mechanic Frank played by a pre Ben Casey Vince Edwards to which of the two twin brothers he is and which one they ended up murdering! The confusion sets in when Gus is run down and killed by Frank with a terrified, in not knowing what her boyfriend was up to, Cleo in the passenger seat.
With Cleo expected to end up with Gus's gas station as well as house and some $50,000.00 in cash up pops his twin brother David looking for a piece of the action or of Gus' estate! Gus who treated his brother David like dirt when he was behind bars in the joint-San Quentin- for forgery had a change of mind when David was released from prison and sought out his help. Sadly for David Gus, before he could thank him, was killed in a hit & run by Frank whom just the day before he put David into his will! When David showed up at the lawyers office his resemblance, even though he was Gus' twin, to his dead brother was astonishing! To the point that he not only looked like a carbon copy of his dead brother Gus but has all of his quirky mannerisms as well! It slowly became obvious to Cleo that it was David that her boyfriend Frank ran down and that her husband Gus took over his identity! With David messing up Frank's plans he now decides to leave Cleo for circus lion tamer Miranda, Dolores Reed, who developed a crush on him and checks out with her to Mexico. That's as far away from the very unstable Cleo who's about to crack under the pressure and spill the beans, in him killing her husband, on him to the police!
****SPOILERS**** Never a dull moment her with director and star Hugo Haas keeping everyone on there toes to who of the two, or even both of them, brothers he supposed to be playing here in the movie. This drives Cleo almost over the edge in hitting the bottle and getting herself smashed while Frank, who was only using her, tries to check out of town with Miranda as well as from the police! ***MAJOR SPOILER*** David who in fact was the supposedly murdered Gus played it both cool as well as a bit stupid which got both Cleo and Frank to drop their guard and expose themselves as David's, not his, murderers. And he did it so skillfully that even at the very last moment of the movie until he took off his shirt, and revealed a scare on his cheat, no one in the audience as well as the cast in the movie was quit sure who he was!
With Cleo expected to end up with Gus's gas station as well as house and some $50,000.00 in cash up pops his twin brother David looking for a piece of the action or of Gus' estate! Gus who treated his brother David like dirt when he was behind bars in the joint-San Quentin- for forgery had a change of mind when David was released from prison and sought out his help. Sadly for David Gus, before he could thank him, was killed in a hit & run by Frank whom just the day before he put David into his will! When David showed up at the lawyers office his resemblance, even though he was Gus' twin, to his dead brother was astonishing! To the point that he not only looked like a carbon copy of his dead brother Gus but has all of his quirky mannerisms as well! It slowly became obvious to Cleo that it was David that her boyfriend Frank ran down and that her husband Gus took over his identity! With David messing up Frank's plans he now decides to leave Cleo for circus lion tamer Miranda, Dolores Reed, who developed a crush on him and checks out with her to Mexico. That's as far away from the very unstable Cleo who's about to crack under the pressure and spill the beans, in him killing her husband, on him to the police!
****SPOILERS**** Never a dull moment her with director and star Hugo Haas keeping everyone on there toes to who of the two, or even both of them, brothers he supposed to be playing here in the movie. This drives Cleo almost over the edge in hitting the bottle and getting herself smashed while Frank, who was only using her, tries to check out of town with Miranda as well as from the police! ***MAJOR SPOILER*** David who in fact was the supposedly murdered Gus played it both cool as well as a bit stupid which got both Cleo and Frank to drop their guard and expose themselves as David's, not his, murderers. And he did it so skillfully that even at the very last moment of the movie until he took off his shirt, and revealed a scare on his cheat, no one in the audience as well as the cast in the movie was quit sure who he was!