Fingerprints Don't Lie
You Can't Erase The Stamp Of A Killer!
1951 | 57m | English
Popularity: 0.9 (history)
| Director: | Sam Newfield |
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| Writer: | Orville H. Hampton, Rupert Hughes |
| Staring: |
| A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 23, 1951 |
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| Director: | Sam Newfield |
| Writer: | Orville H. Hampton, Rupert Hughes |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | photographer, murder, fingerprint, framed for murder |
| Production Companies | Spartan Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Richard Travis | James Stover |
| Sheila Ryan | Carolyn Palmer |
| Sid Melton | Hypo Dorton |
| Tom Neal | Prosecuting Attorney |
| Margia Dean | Nadine Connell |
| Lyle Talbot | Police Lt. Grayson |
| Michael Whalen | Police Commissioner Frank Kelso |
| Richard Emory | Paul Moody |
| Dee Tatum | Connie Duval |
| George Eldredge | King Sullivan |
| Rory Mallinson | Brad Evans |
| Karl 'Killer' Davis | Rod Barenger |
| Zon Murray | Defense Attorney |
| Syra Marty | Syra - the Blonde Model |
| Roy Butler | Bailiff (uncredited) |
| Dick Gordon | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Forbes Murray | Judge Edwin Monroe (uncredited) |
| John Roy | Detective (uncredited) |
| Larry Steers | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Ferris Taylor | Mayor Wendell Palmer (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Orville H. Hampton | Screenplay |
| Rupert Hughes | Story |
| Jack Greenhalgh | Director of Photography |
| Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Dudley Chambers | Music |
| Stanley Neufeld | Assistant Director |
| Harry Reynolds | Editor |
| Bert Shefter | Music |
| Glen Glenn | Sound |
| Ray Mercer | Visual Effects |
| Paul Stanhope | Makeup Artist |
| Tom Kemp | Construction Foreman |
| Harry Reif | Set Decoration |
| Bert Sternbach | Production Manager |
| Alfred Berke | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Sam Newfield | Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sigmund Neufeld | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Trending Position
When the mayor is bumped off, the local police force conclude that it must have been "Moody" (Richard Emory) because all the fingerprint evidence points to him. He, of course, protests his innocence and luckily local journalist "Evans" (Rory Mallinson) takes up the cudgels creating just enough doubt ... in the forensic expert's mind to have him think twice. "Stover" (Richard Travis) has every faith in his science but gradually, working with "Carolyn" (Sheila Ryan) - the daughter of the murdered man - he is faced with the prospect that there has been some manipulation going on. Back to square one? Who is the real culprit? This is a perfectly watchable crime drama that tries to develop the role of new technology in policing, and one that also points out that the infallible is rarely that. It can't have had much of a budget, so neither the acting nor the writing is particularly noteworthy, and I found the ending to be just a little too convenient, but it passes an hour effortlessly enough.