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The entire convoluted plot of this low-budget exploitation title is played out on threadbare sets populated by B- and C-list Poverty Row players, who all act like they knew they had better movies to do -- and many of them, including director Donald Brodie, in fact, did have better movies to work in around this time and for years after as well. The fact that the story is told in a mere 68 minutes gives the movie a surreal quality that is even more startling, given the tame nature of the dance for which Eve is arrested -- there are moments here that might lead a viewer to think of the work of Edward D. Wood, Jr., and it's just possible that Wood might even have seen this movie; certainly its release history anticipates some of the aspects of his career. The movie, originally titled A Fig Leaf For Eve, was re-distributed and re-sold on the grind-house and exploitation circuits of the 1940's under multiple names, none of which revealed the movie's real nature, as a crime story, and all of which only adds to the overall veneer of sleaziness surrounding the picture. Director Donald Brodie, who was principally an actor (and also appears here as an extra), would go on to play a fairly prominent supporting role in Edgar Ulmer's ultra-low-budget (but oh-so-classy) Detour just about a year later, which was a far more significant credit in his output, despite the fact that this was his only stint in the director's chair.