Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Prismark10 X Marks the Spot is a pleasant but uninteresting B movie with nice leads. However it is a predictable thriller which is notable for featuring actor Neil Hamilton who would go on to play Commissioner Gordon in the Batman tv series.Eddie Delaney is a private eye who is about to be commissioned to the US army. He meets his dad in a cafe, a veteran police sergeant. Later on his dad is killed when he sees some suspicious people at a warehouse. The bad guys were planning to steal two trucks to sell tyres on the black market.Eddie is persuaded by lieutenant William Decker to work with the police to find out who killed his father. However at each turn Eddie finds that potential witnesses have died before he could speak to them. Soon Eddie is wanted for murder and he needs to clear his name.An unpretentious quickie with a twist that is easy to predict.

Robert J. Maxwell It's a film about bootlegging rubber tires in the middle of the war and opens with an elderly Irish cop coming across some suspicious characters standing in front of a warehouse. "What's going on here?" Oh, nothing. "I'll just take a look in that warehouse if ye don't mind," says the cop, who is shot to death while trying to open the door. Delaney, the cop, is in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires a search warrant from a judge after establishing probable cause. But never mind. This isn't a technically demanding film. The old cop's murder sets the son, a private detective, on the trail of the gang, to their ultimate disadvantage.It should be pointed out that during World War II, tires and the rubber they were made from, were as valuable as gold. You couldn't GET new tires. The rubber that they were made from came from Southeast Asia, now in the hands of the Japanese. What little rubber the Allies had were used to build tires for military vehicles like Jeeps. Stealing tires was not just a criminal act but an unpatriotic one.Well, the cop's son, Damian O'Flynn, is about to be inducted into the U.S. Army. As a first lieutenant. (How do you do that?) He's angry and fast. He cooperates with the police at first because they're both in pursuit of the chief heavy -- Jack La Rue, not to be confused with "Lash" La Rue. Some reviewers keep pointing out that I'm criminally careless for having mixed up the two. Well, I AM criminally careless but at least I don't suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder! Anyway, the heavy here is Jack La Rue, née Gaspere Biondolillo in New York. And kindly don't confuse him with Jack La Rue, Jr., son of Jack La Rue, not son of Lash La Rue. Now, I'm glad we got that out of the way.No particular acting skills are on display. None are necessary. It's a fast paced mystery with no fooling around and no time for theatrics. The performers are professionals. They hit their marks, say their lines, express whatever feelings are appropriate to the situation, and dart out for the next scene. They're all likable enough, and Helen Parrish is conventionally attractive.

MartinHafer This film is a B-picture--a term used to denote a "second feature"--a lesser and less expensive film to be shown with a higher-quality/budget film (an A-picture) back in the 1930s and 40s. Bs were mostly passable entertainment or often a bit less, but occasionally a B rises above the modest expectations...a bit. "X Marks the Spot" is a better than normal B and even though it clocks in at well under one hour, it has some originality and a few decent plot twists.The film begins by introducing a cop and his son who is soon to be inducted into the military, as the film was made during WWII. This can also be seen in the plot, as the film involves a smuggling ring--one that deals in black market tires--because tires were limited due to rationing. The good ol' cop accidentally wanders into the midst of the activities of the gang and is killed. So, his son (who is still a detective) goes to investigate. However, when the chief suspect is murdered a bit later, people assume the son did it--and it's up to him to escape from custody and prove his innocence (a rather standard cliché of the day).What I liked about it was the whole rubber tire angle--something you'd only see in a WWII flick. I also liked the twists when the REAL culprits are discovered. While the film doesn't have any real stars in it, it's well acted and interesting.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Soon to be inducted into the US Army, as a second lieutenant no less, private dick Eddie Delaney, Damian O'Flynn, gets involved with this gang of tire smugglers who gunned down his dad police Sergeant Tim Delaney, Robert Homans, who uncovered the gangs secret storehouse. The tire storehouse was already ripped off by former bootlegger, and now rubber tire smuggler, Marty Clark, Jack La Rue. Clark is a slippery eel of a hood who, unlike Big Al "Scarface" Capone, outfoxed the authorities during Prohibition days by not forgetting to pay his taxes.It later turns out that Clark ripped off the tire place from this unscrupulous businessman John Underwood, Neil Hamilton, who like the good and money hungry creep that he is wants to make a killing during wartime by dealing, in selling to the highest bidder, desperately needed rubber tires that the US military needs to defeat Hitler and Tojo. Determined to get his tires back Underwood hires Eddie to track down those who ripped him off with Eddie not at all knowing that Underwood is working against the very country that he as a soon to be a member of the US armed forces is sworn to defend.Interesting little movie that has to do with black market racketeering and this really cute radio disk-jockey Helen Parrish, Linda Ward, who gets involved with the tire smuggling operation. That happens when Helen unwitting answers a phone call telling her to announce a black-out, because of a possible Japanese or German air raid. This was done so that the killer of one of the main tire smugglers can go into action and knock off his victim and be able to get away, during all the confusion, while the light are turned out.On the run after being framed for at least two murders, Clark & Underwood, Eddie with the help of Helen, whom he calls every day on her radio show with song requests, uncover who's really behind these murders and it's someone very high up in the police department. This creep also want's to get in on the action, tire smuggling, by using his power and influence to protect the racketeers with a nice kickback of greenbacks for himself as a reward. I guess it's hard to put your kids through collage or get plastered with high priced booze every night on only a meager policeman's salary.Eddie saves the day and the country, from an acute rubber shortage, by uncovering who's the big man behind the rubber, or tire, smuggling racket and having him and his hoods put on ice together with the frozen tires that they were stealing. In the end pretty Helen Perrish, what a doll, promises to marry Eddie when he comes a marching home from the war. A war, WWII, that he has yet to have even participated in.