Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Yorick I know Yorick's legions of fans have been clamoring for his insightful clever words on this strange-o flick, but I have to admit all the other reviewers have got it covered. But do check out on the "critic" side the Michael E. Grost entry--mucho to think about. The movie's so flat and affect-less it creates its own mood of somnambulistic surrealism. It's Ulmer, baby!

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Given the assignment to bring convicted murderess Eden Lane, Barbara Payton, to the city lock-up the detective Ray Patrick, Paul Langton, escorting her takes a powder together Eden after she supposedly saw the man, Frank Deane, that she was accused of murdering as she and Patrick were on their way by train back to state prison. This has Det. Patrick's good friend and boss Capt.Bert Rawley,Robert Shayne, mad as hell in allowing against his better judgment to have him escort her knowing that being so drop dead gorgeous Eden can work of his heartstrings and have him do, like a love sick puppy, anything that she wants.Despite dropping his guard and planning to later drop his pants, in romancing Eden, it turns out that Det. Patrick's believing Eden's story that her murder victim was in fact alive turns out to have some truth to it. Enough truth that the outraged Capt. Rawley gives him an additional 24 hours to find Deane's killer if in fact there was one. What later comes out in the wash is that someone was murdered in all this confusion but it wasn't Dean and the person who murdered him and his accomplice who was later to murder Eden's former roommate Pasty Flint, Tracy Roberts, who turned out to be the real culprits in all this. As for Eden who was facing the San Quentin gas chamber she turned out to be the innocent victim in all this confusing mess!One of the last films that the beautiful Barbara Payton stared in before she ended up addicted on drugs and turning tricks to support her habit that eventually lead to her untimely death at the age of 39 in 1966. Decent 1950's film noir with Det. Patrick at first not believing Eden's story that Frank Dean was still alive but little by little realizing that she was in fact telling the truth. That to the point where he was willing to not only end up losing his job but ending up behind bars for helping a fugitive from justice escape justice. Justice was indeed served when the real killer or killers blew their cover and ended up behind bars for their crimes. Crimes that turned out to be independent of each other.

mark.waltz The best film noir involves a sap of a man who is willing to give up his career and risk everything including his life just because of the femme fatale who may or may not be a killer, a crook or a tramp. Film historians explain that the vixens of "Double Indemnity", "Out of the Past" and "Detour" were able to destroy their men much like the vamps of the silent era through the promise of the best sex of their life. That is the case of "Murder is My Beat" where a detective gets all the evidence to arrest a blonde vixen for murder, follows her through the snowy wilderness, gets her on the train to take her back, and bam!, is all of a sudden under her spell and willing to risk everything because she claims that she has seen the supposed murder victim standing outside of the train on a station platform. A lie or her conscience playing tricks on her? That remains to be seen.A typical film noir narration moves the plot along and while this is definitely a cliché of these types of films, in this case, it works wonders. Paul Langton is both hero and narrator, telling his story as he tries to reason as to why he believed that the blonde and buxom cabaret singer Barbara Payton was innocent of the murder he has been collecting evidence on against her. Payton leaves little to the imagination in her tight sweater as Langton basically bursts in on her in the snow-covered cabin. He barely missed walking over the roof of it until he noticed a chimney sticking up out of nowhere. She looks pretty cozy there in spite of the fact that there's probably 10 feet of snow outside threatening to block her in for the winter.As directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, this is one of his lesser known classics (which includes film noir sleepers like "Detour" and "Ruthless"), and there is wonder as to why newer filmmakers have discovered his work to be artistically genius. What seems at first like a generic film noir as that era was winding down is actually a great find in itself, with tight editing, crisp dialog and characters you never know what side of moralistic laws they are on. That keeps you guessing all the way through and that is what great film noir is all about.

coffeengreens Mid way through this movie there is a scene at a figurine factory complete with workers on the assembly line. It has nothing really to do with the movie and looks like it was taken straight taken from one of those 50s instructional films. It may have been the peak of Murder is my Beat.