Armored Car

 Dave Purvis -played by Perry Mason nemesis William Talman - is a master criminal planner who robs the Wrigley Field revenues during a ball game. THis is the other Wrigley Field, the one in L.A. for the minor league Angels. THe movie is made in 1950. The hold up goes wrong and a cop is shot and killed. A lot of forensics, radio patrol cars and wire taps ensue in a movie that moves at a clipped pace. Purvis is involved with a burlesque dancer who is easy on the eye but a genuine tough cookie. The burlesque bits pretty much seal the fact that this was a B movie. All the criminals in this noir are desperate and untrustworthy, the kind who "never gave one dime to the United Way." Like many of these movies, the interplay of black and white in cinema composition is at times stunning. While the cops persevere the general impression is that it is a mean old world. Funny thing, The TMC moderator said Armored Car toured the country on a double bill with The Good Humor Man, a Jack Carson slapstick sendup that put me in stiches when I was a lad.