2023 movie #122. 1947. After her friend goes missing, possibly a victim of the "Poet Killer", an American dance-hall girl in London agrees to go undercover to help the police find the killer by answering creepy personal ads. A non-comic role for Lucille Ball but she's great. ( )

Ball is really stunning playing an American dancer in London who is enlisted by Scotland Yard to help trap someone who has been sending poems about young women who have disappeared. The rest of the cast, with exceptional actors such as Sanders and Coburn, is great, too. Boris Karloff has a brief appearance as a crazed dress designer. There are more than a few implausibilities when you stop to think about it all, but it is done with so much style that you can't help but enjoy yourself with this one. It definitely makes me want to see out any other pre-I Love Lucy Ball films. She was very effective in this noirish role. ( )