Boomerang!

From the producer of The March of Time newsreels and fledgling director Elia Kazan comes this semi-interesting period piece, a noirish semi-documentary shot on location close to the Connecticut town where the events actually took place. This story of the unsolved murder of a priest stars Dana Andrews as the honest DA (eventually to be FDR’s AG) who won’t let a suspect be railroaded in a politically volatile case. Lee J. Cobb and other familiar or soon-to-be-familiar faces mingle effectively with local non-actors. Despite the incidental interest, this film lacks the dramatic coherence or amplitude to make it anything but a mildly-involving antique (and I use the word advisedly since it dates from the year of my birth.) (1947, dvd, n.) *6-*