by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash. Commendably, Richard Arlen plays Lash as written-brusque, nasty, antisocial. The plot gets under way when socialite Joyce Bonniwell (Veda Ann Borg) hires Lash to located her missing husband Jim (Edward Earle). The fact that Joyce is Lash's former sweetheart heightens the detective's interest in the case-so much so that, for most of the film's running time, he doesn't realize that he's being set up by a pair of extremely clever con artists. Four murders later, however, Lash ties up all the loose ends and turns the crooks over to the authorities.
characteristics
- Murder
- Old-flame
- Plans
- Missing-person
- Middle-age
- Marital-problems
- Marriage-problems
- Private-detective
- Relations
- Theft
- Thief
- Swindle
- Search
- Robber
- Scam
