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Frank Diaz1.5

This barely clocks in at an hour which is probably its biggest saving grace 😅 but even at that length the whole thing feels completely underdeveloped. We follow a federal agent and his partner trying to take down a bank robbing syndicate and the movie just rushes from one plot point to the next without giving you a single reason to care about the stakes.Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt actually make a pretty decent team at the center of it all. They have an easy chemistry that makes them watchable but they are fighting an uphill battle against a script that gives them nothing interesting to work with. The entire production just feels slapped together. The directing is incredibly flat, the central mystery unfolds with zero tension and the logic of the investigation skips steps so frequently that it is tough to stay invested in the outcome. It isn't exactly a painful watch since it flies by so fast but the exact second the credits roll, the whole movie just evaporates from your brain 🤷

ben schwartz

from director louis gasiner and co-writer lawrence meade, the powell and pressburger who gave us reefer madness, we get bank alarm. eleanor hunt and conrad nagel play bobbie and alan, a poverty row nick and nora charles. hunt has a lot more to do crime fighting-wise here than myrna loy got in the early thin man films, but maybe that's bc hunt co-wrote the script under the name cynthia meade and gave herself something to do. it's got some funny dialogue. the story focuses on an armed robbery gang that alan hopes to catch, and then one of the gang kidnaps his sister. the dialogue is the best thing about bank alarm, and this is considered the best of the four hunt and nagel movies. since it's the last in the series, i'm not that excited about going back to the beginning. lawrence meade gets credit on a handful movies, most with gasiner. since it’s the same name hunt chose, it makes me wonder if that's a pen name, too, for gasiner or someone else.

PUNQ2.0

They saved the best one for last. The 4th and final movie in the federal detective series of Alan O'Connor featuring Conrad Nagel & Eleanor Hunt. And like in the first movie they bring back Vince Barnett for the comic relief after being absent in movie 2 & 3. Again he helps liven up the place while Nagel drains the intensity whenever he's in focus. Nagel looks the part, but can't make it work, which has been the main downfall of these movies. Hunt on the other hand has been okay, and together with Barnett make sure the movie stays afloat and gives the series a solid ending.