A secretary with an impeccable reputation for trustworthiness and reliability colludes with her boyfriend to steal $50,000 from her employer.A secretary with an impeccable reputation for trustworthiness and reliability colludes with her boyfriend to steal $50,000 from her employer.A secretary with an impeccable reputation for trustworthiness and reliability colludes with her boyfriend to steal $50,000 from her employer.
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Did you know
- TriviaDDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) itself is colorless.
DDT was banned in the US in 1972 due to its environmental dangers which included eggshell thinning in certain birds of prey, such as the bald eagle. This thinning led to a decline in population driving some species of birds to near extinction.
- GoofsWhen Dusty puts his right arm around Doris during their lunch-time rendezvous, the DDT or sulfur powder on his hand leaves a faint, but visible, hand print on the back of her dress. Back at her office, when Mathews notices the mark, it has become a large, very noticeable light-colored smudge that covers nearly half her upper back. [The hand print could have smeared when her back touched the seat back in her car.]
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Narrator: In its day-to-day job of enforcing the law, the Highway Patrol has come to know many types of lawbreakers, their methods, and habits. But some fit no previous pattern. This girl - an efficient secretary, hardworking, thorough, and loyal. For five years, she has held her daily job with the Colton Valley Farmers' Co-Operative. Doris Mauldin does not look like a criminal, nor has she ever been one. Until today.
But not all is as it appears. The secretary took the money herself and has it in her purse. At lunch, she meets her accomplice and gives him the money to put in a safe deposit box in another town for a year until the heat is off.
She planned carefully, but Matthews has been eliminating possible suspects all morning and thus turns back to the people who actually worked in the cooperative near the safe. And then "the hand of fate" makes everything clear. To find out what I mean, watch and find out.
In 1957, such a woman as the titular efficiency secretary could really not hope for anything more career wise than that of secretary, teacher, or nurse - Careers that involved serving men. Not an excuse but perhaps an explanation for why such a person would turn to crime. In 1957, fifty thousand dollars was worth about 600 thousand in 2024 - Not an amount that would have you fixed for life, by any means. So perhaps this secretary was more interested in the challenge than the cash. It appeared that way.
- AlsExGal
- Apr 26, 2024
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- Whiteman Airport - 12657 Osborne Street, Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA(final capture scene filmed here)
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1