A scenic film artist uses his talent to arrange the “accidental” deaths of his odious siblings to become the sole beneficiary of the billion-dollar Saxon Oil Trust. As in “Catch Me If You Can” and “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” the ingenious hero is sympathetic and comedic, but in the end is convicted of a murder he didn’t intend.
A “beat generation” poet finds himself involved in noir criminal adventures in 1959.