GET OUTTA TOWN

US, 1960, 62 minutes, Black-and-white.
Doug Wilson, Jeanne Baird, Marilyn O' Connor, Tony Louis, Frank Harding.
Directed by Charles Davis.

This is a very small budget crime thriller, directed by actor Charles Davis (originally from Ireland) and produced in collaboration with the star, Doug Wilson. Davis’s wife, Marilyn O’ Connor, (married for 59 years) plays a rather seductive leading lady.

The film opens with a man being bashed on a side street in the dark. He staggers back to an apartment where he is spurned by the young woman there. The film then goes into flashback.

The audience learns that this man, Kelly, was a criminal, under police suspicion, but left town and is now returned because his younger brother has been murdered. He follows through with investigations, interrogated by the hostile police, tracking down bartenders who had met his brother just before his death (and who both move out of town), meets past associates who give him a lead to a past business friend, meeting his wife and getting access to him.

Kelly’s mother does not have anything to do with him and the young woman, Jill, was formerly his girlfriend but has now condemned him. The police become suspicious again because there has been a robbery using the method that he used in the past – although it is uncovered and his group of friends have done the robbery imitating his method.

He then gets suspicious of the business friend, goes to his apartment, confronts him and learns that his friend had killed his brother though that was not his intention. He is now wanting to get out of town.

There is a confrontation, some shooting, Jill testifying on behalf of Kelly, his explanation that he has been working in San Francisco in an ordinary job and is determined to go straight.

Fairly ordinary material but done with some energy and vigour.