Wonderful character development!

That was an excellent one.

How sad is this?

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Fairly good low-budget noir about a train-heist. Problem is that I lost interest in the main character when it is disclosed that he is having an affair with the doctors wife. His wife was so loyal and attentive to him that we lose his motivation as to why we wanted to do the heist. Was he going to leave his wife behind at start a new life with new money? How was he going to deal with the doctor? And why did he murder the plane mechanic? He seems to be such a heel that we don't care what happens to him. Would have been a much better film if the motivation was just the money. Silly requirement to make reviews 10 line minimum! ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES RICH A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES..

As a train speeds through the Arizona night. A man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The fake doctor, Paul Bruckner, leaves the train with his "patient" and the "patient's wife", who is really Bruckner's wife Linda. The insurance company puts its best investigator, Charlie Norman, on the case to work with the railroad's investigator, Joe Armstrong. The men are friends and Joe is upset that Charlie and his wife, Ruth, will have to postpone their Mexico vacation. Charlie's concern goes beyond the spoiled vacation as he was the brains behind the holdup, who had fallen in love with Linda several months earlier while investigating a claim Bruckner had filed against his insurance company. At first, Joe is unable to find anything out about the flawlessly timetable planning for the robbery other than what Charlie wants him to find out.The characters are poorly written.The story goes no where.

It's remarkable how many actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood began or ended their careers making crime pictures ( or horror movies). Mark Stevens is a case in point. He began promisingly enough with the stylish noir The Dark Corner in 1946 and basically ended it with Timetable ten years later. Was he a classic Marlowesque private eye in the first one, in Timetable the rigors of maintaining a Hollywood career have visibly and morally taken their toll. Directed by Stevens himself, all the glamour of the classic noir is drained from both the look of the film as from the protagonists. Stevens has the look of a man who has seen too much and has basically given up hope that his life will change for the better. Even his last desperate attempt to turn his life around seems doomed from the start. Which is not helped by the strict moral code of the day that is constantly underlined, namely that Crime Doesn't Pay. The plot is a little convoluted, but then that's not what we watch these movies for. Stylistically it has little going for it,and small effort was made to avoid a stage-bound look. But the performances are adequate enough and especially Stevens is totally convincing as the world-weary protagonist. For noir fans this one is certainly worth a look.

This film, starring and directed by Mark Stevens, has more twists and turns than the streets of San Francisco. Stevens plays a seemingly by-the-book insurance investigator called in on a train robbery caper which appears to be the perfect crime. But all is not as it seems and the true character of Stevens is revealed. He is the man, obsessed with sticking to the timetable, who has planned the robbery and now is on his own trail. (This is reminiscent of "The Big Clock" where Ray Milland was put in a similar situation of being the hunter and the hunted). He is romantically involved with one of the perpetrators, played by Felicia Farr, and must avoid detection by misdirecting his partner from the truth and the clues that keep popping up all over the place.The chase leads to Mexico, leaving a trail of bodies, and the game is up. Farr gets killed, Steven's oblivious wife finds him out, and Stevens attempts to escape, forcing his partner to shoot him down.This film packs quite a punch in the short running time of a little over an hour. The plot is complicated but believable and all the players do a good job of making this a stand-out in the realm of the lower budget B film genre.