For a superior example of this, see "The Bad Seed" from 1956.
They are buffaloed by the hypothesizing of a psychologist-a common theme in the 40s and 50s when audiences seemed intrigued by the mysteries of the human mind and the simple "explanations" that science seemed to offer. Ayres develops a theory about the nature of the murders, but the police won't listen. With his help, they capture the axe murderer who attempts to end Laraine's day. She is rather kooky and he seems unable to string two serious lines together. Lew Ayres (as Oliver Duffy) plays an out of work actor who stumbles into a murder plot aimed at Laraine Day (Edwina Brown). And although it has some traits common to noir, I found the tone of this film to be too light to firmly place it in that genre. I hesitate to call this film a mystery, because the nature of the murders that are plaguing Chicago is known to the viewer from the very beginning.
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