A Bullet for Joey

In Montreal, an organ grinder with a monkey kills a RCMP officer to avoid questioning. Inspector Leduc (Edward G. Robinson) slowly uncovers an international Communist plot to kidnap an important atomic physics scientist.

This is a little espionage thriller with EGR. It's ironic that he's hunting down a communist conspiracy in the movie while struggling with the communist witch-hunt in real life. It's a little slow. It's not cinematically exciting. The setting is Canada which doesn't mean much of anything visually. It could have done something with the local French but I don't think they do that back in the day. This movie needs a couple of action scenes early. There is a little bit of action at the end but it's barely anything and it's too little, too late.