Review of Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) by Alex B — 02 Jun 2013

The only thing standing in the way of a "miscarriage of justice" (a down-and-out, unhandsome young man being executed for a murder he didn't commit) is the bad/guilty conscience/luck of a good-looking, upwardly-mobile, young professional (cum-amateur detective) couple.

(I don't know if this film originates the formula, but it certainly expresses it concisely/patly.) A liberal film, then, with a pathetic "solution" to a real problem.