No Questions Asked finds Barry Sullivan as a lawyer for an insurance company with some heavy duty money problems. He's got a high maintenance Arlene Dahl whom he's looking to marry. On his own and after a few tries he makes a deal with some gangsters to return some stolen furs, No Questions Asked, for which Sullivan gets a finder's fee.
Dahl still gives Sullivan the heave ho and trades up to marry the richer Richard Simmons (that's not the exercise guru). While drowning his sorrows, Sullivan realizes one could make a good living at this and in fact it's legitimate. And the crook's realize they can steal hard to fence items, as long as they can sell it back to the owners through Sullivan. And the beauty for Sullivan is that his end is completely legitimate. Sweet.
Naturally this is all going to blow up in our hero/protagonist's face and police inspector George Murphy will be around to collect the pieces. It's how it all blows up that's the real interest in No Questions Asked. Sullivan also has good girl Jean Hagen from his office with a yen for him. But he can't shake his yen for Dahl.
No Questions Asked is a nicely paced caper/noir film with a lot of high gloss productions values not normally associated with noir. Of course coming from MGM it wouldn't be anything else. Dahl gives one of her best screen performances as the ice princess of Sullivan's dreams.
This one is worth catching if TCM runs it.
Dahl still gives Sullivan the heave ho and trades up to marry the richer Richard Simmons (that's not the exercise guru). While drowning his sorrows, Sullivan realizes one could make a good living at this and in fact it's legitimate. And the crook's realize they can steal hard to fence items, as long as they can sell it back to the owners through Sullivan. And the beauty for Sullivan is that his end is completely legitimate. Sweet.
Naturally this is all going to blow up in our hero/protagonist's face and police inspector George Murphy will be around to collect the pieces. It's how it all blows up that's the real interest in No Questions Asked. Sullivan also has good girl Jean Hagen from his office with a yen for him. But he can't shake his yen for Dahl.
No Questions Asked is a nicely paced caper/noir film with a lot of high gloss productions values not normally associated with noir. Of course coming from MGM it wouldn't be anything else. Dahl gives one of her best screen performances as the ice princess of Sullivan's dreams.
This one is worth catching if TCM runs it.