Beautiful, moving film.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The story is good because it is plotted well. It starts with a Ted-friendly fold: a guy is in a movie with his girl. He takes a break and kills someone and returns as if the murder was a movie. Well, it is.What follows is a collection of tough guys and dolls navigating through different interlocked schemes to cheap each other in some way. A few die. The good plotting comes from the intricate interlacing of the perfidy. The hero here is a mobster's "good" daughter who goes under cover to find the killer of her dad. The formula would have her won and lose both. She doesTed's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

This film held my interest from beginning to the very end with one outstanding actor, Hurd Hatfield (Stretch Norton) who gave an outstanding performance and kept this film moving along in his night club owned by mobsters. Laura Mansfield, (Joyce Mackenzie) played the role as a young girl coming home from college and witnesses her father being killed by a delivery man at their front door. Laura decides to do her own detective work, because the police do not seem to be working fast enough in their investigation and Laura does determine who the killer is but has to find ways of getting more evidence. Albert Dekker, (Armitage) gives a great supporting role and Joyce Mackenzie lightens up the film which her charming female looks. Although, this film is a low budget film, it has many twists and turns and will entertain you.

DESTINATION MURDER is a moderately interesting noir film with a couple of credible performances--STANLEY CLEMENTS and HURD HATFIELD--and a nice turn by MYRNA DELL (the gal who gets bumped off in the first scene of THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE). She does an effective job here as a spurned and scheming woman despite some slick, yet naive dialogue.JOYCE MACKENZIE has a model's good looks and is very pretty as the feminine lead but not exactly convincing as a woman who sets out to solve her father's murder. The story takes a few twists and turns along the way, but none of it seems credible even while you become absorbed in how it will all turn out.ALBERT DEKKER is surprisingly weak in a key villainous role but HURD HATFIELD is strong enough here to make Dekker's role seem almost peripheral. He and Stanley Clements are the glue that keep the film within the realm of believability as moderate entertainment. But all in all, it's the kind of passable and shadowy "B" film that can best be described as not likely to linger in your mind.

Nothing really stands out in this below mediocre film-noir: the acting is shaky, the music isn't interesting, the story doesn't convince (sucks basically), the cinematography doesn't appeal and the mob isn't even there. But it's not bad enough to turn it off halfway. The pace is OK, the whole is kind of entertaining, it's not too long (65 min.) for its content and its flatness seems to be its power. Or is the jargon for that 'directing makes up' ? Anyway, I think this is a b-flick that should have been made fifteen years before to be appreciated.I just happen to like film-noir enough to rate this 6/10