Trevor Stevenson (Ralph Meeker, Big House, U.S.A., Kiss Me Deadly), a well-known painter and highly decorated WWII hero, and his new bride Stella (Janice Rule, Invitation to a Gunfighter, The Swimmer) travel to Acapulco for their honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area and Trevor who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is accused of the murders. He believes he may be responsible, since he has long stretches of amnesia where he can't remember anything. Actor/director Paul Henreid (The Scar, Dead Ringer) directed this noirish thriller and co-starred as Police Captain Henrique Monteros, the man investigating the grisly killings. Screenplay by Robert Hill (Female on the Beach) and music score by Les Baxter (Panic in Year Zero!).

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Any list of the classic attributes of this thing called film noir congers up images of high heels on wet pavement, dark & gritty urban landscapes, double crosses and that four lettered F word; fate.

So how then do honeymooners frolicking on the sun splashed beaches of Acapulco cut the mustard as noir? In no less the works of noted noir authorities Mike Keaney and Art Lyons in their books on the subject; Film Noir Guide and Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir is this film found. As the debate continues to rage over the merits of style vs. theme we’ll have to op out for theme on this hard to find entry. The oft told tale of the unstable WWII vet plays out again with disastrous consequents for any female near our protagonist when a loud noise is heard.

Excerpt from Noir of the Week located HERE

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