A great performance by J. Carroll Naish as an esteemed doctor whose best days are far behind him (mainly because of his abuse of alcohol) so now he can only get large fees for treating criminals, and that puts the FBI out after him as well as the racketeers, robbers and organized crime figures he's helped out of one scrape or another. Nurse Janice Logan has stood by him long enough and even though she's not fully aware of his ties to organize crime, she can't sit back and watch him drink himself into destruction. He's also engaged to Heather Angel in a minor subplot that doesn't make sense, obviously just there to give Naish a romantic interest, and completely unimportant to the plot.
FBI agent Lloyd Nolan is busy on the case, even romancing Logan to get information. Broderick Crawford is the hard as nails mobster who constantly brings patience to Naish, and Richard Carle is the liasion between the mob and Naish, obviously up to his neck in corruption. The best part of the film is a scene between the feds and country bumpkin Clem Bevans whose one sentence answers to Nolan's questions just get funnier and funnier. A very good follow-up to the original "Persons in Hiding* FBI drama based upon stories by J. Edgar Hoover which was followed by the very campy "Queen of the Mob". It's too bad there weren't more of this series. They are all indeed very good programmers that still have the ability to keep the audience entertained while informing them of some of the bureau's most notorious cases, all quite different.
FBI agent Lloyd Nolan is busy on the case, even romancing Logan to get information. Broderick Crawford is the hard as nails mobster who constantly brings patience to Naish, and Richard Carle is the liasion between the mob and Naish, obviously up to his neck in corruption. The best part of the film is a scene between the feds and country bumpkin Clem Bevans whose one sentence answers to Nolan's questions just get funnier and funnier. A very good follow-up to the original "Persons in Hiding* FBI drama based upon stories by J. Edgar Hoover which was followed by the very campy "Queen of the Mob". It's too bad there weren't more of this series. They are all indeed very good programmers that still have the ability to keep the audience entertained while informing them of some of the bureau's most notorious cases, all quite different.