Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 1955 by Allied Artists Pictures Corp. No New York opening. U.S. release: 27 February 1955. U.K. release through Associated British-Pathé: 7 November 1955. Australian release through Paramount: 8 April 1960 (sic). 6,940 feet. 77 minutes. Cut to 70 minutes in Australia.SYNOPSIS: The body of a Mr. Deane is found with his head in a fireplace, his features burned beyond recognition. Police detectives Ray Patrick and Bert Rawley arrest a nightclub singer, Eden Lane, for the crime, and she is convicted. While Ray and a police matron travel with her to prison, Eden sees a man through the train window that she identifies as the Deane she was convicted of murdering. Ray believes her, and he and Eden leap from the train when it slows for a grade. They walk back to town and days pass while they search in vain. COMMENT: The script reads like a 25¢ novel and production values are modest - but I liked it. In the hands of director Ulmer and photographer Wellman, it is often visually quite striking. Good atmosphere is built up, despite the constant use of studio cut-ins before an obvious process screen. And in thus one, super sexy Barbara Payton gives a quite creditable account of herself. (I think we can congratulate Edgar G. Ulmer for that otherwise incredible miracle, although I will admit that some of my colleagues went overboard for Miss Payton herself and even decried the fact that she was not nominated for an Academy Award for a "brilliant performance that permits the suggestion of instability beneath the surface calm of the character's visage.")

RanchoTuVu This film only heightens Edgar Ulmer's fame as a great director even if it isn't as great as Detour was.The opening has one detective tracking down another, and the fistfight that follows leads to an intriguing story told in flashback that begins with a scene of a murdered man face-down on a carpet of an apartment with his face in a fireplace, which turns out to be an important part of the plot. Why was one detective beating up the other? Well, the other had fallen in love with the supposed murderer of the dead man in the apartment. After she's convicted of the murder, while he's escorting her on a long train ride to prison, she sees the supposed dead man while looking out the window of the moving train. He's standing on the platform of a station the train had passed by. This has elements of Detour in it, if I remember correctly. In any event, said detective becomes convinced of the possibility of the woman's (Barbara Payton) innocence and they actually jump off the moving train together to get to the bottom of the case. What a brilliant use of the limited funds available to make this movie. But it gets much better as they move closer to the truth, with the owners of a ceramics company (it wasn't Bauer Pottery but it could have been). I couldn't stop watching Murder Is My Beat.

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.

TC-4 I have seen lots of Film-Noir movies but to call this one is a just rip-off. This is nothing more than a very low budget black and white movie. The storyline is predictable and sets are cheap. This was probably filmed in 2 days. It has none of that film-noir mystique. Don't waste your time on this one.