Review of The Hangman Waits

This a rather strange film.At times it seems inept and amateurish and at others unintentionally funny,but it is not without interest.the plot is fairly straightforward without explaining what turned the cinema organist into a murderer.For some reason we don't see his face till well after half the film has elapsed.The most interesting part comes when he is running from the police near St Pauls.It gives you an idea of just how much devastation there was in the area surrounding St Pauls.The climax is in the newspaper building and it is here we see the Keystone cops.5 policeman are shown hanging on to the outside of a police car.When it stops they run into the newspaper building but fail to catch up with the murderer.It is reminiscent of a Buster Keaton silent film.The ending is a bit of a surprise.However the general feeling throughout is of a poverty row production.