"A Burglar to the Rescue" is the first of Universal's short crime dramas. It's a bit overacted at times but otherwise is worth seeing if you like old mysteries.
When the story begins, you learn that a banker (Thurston Hall) is in trouble. To impress his greedy girlfriend, he's been embezzling...and a bank examiner is expected in the morning. When he suggests they run off together, she refuses....informing him that she wants nothing to do with him.
Soon after she leaves, an old employee shows up at the banker's home. It seems that long ago, the banker embezzled another time....and pinned the crime on one of his workers....and the man was sent to prison. Now he' back for revenge. What's next? See the film.
I think this was just an okay short story...okay because it was very talky and a bit overacted here and there. It just could have been better.
When the story begins, you learn that a banker (Thurston Hall) is in trouble. To impress his greedy girlfriend, he's been embezzling...and a bank examiner is expected in the morning. When he suggests they run off together, she refuses....informing him that she wants nothing to do with him.
Soon after she leaves, an old employee shows up at the banker's home. It seems that long ago, the banker embezzled another time....and pinned the crime on one of his workers....and the man was sent to prison. Now he' back for revenge. What's next? See the film.
I think this was just an okay short story...okay because it was very talky and a bit overacted here and there. It just could have been better.