​​​​​​​Susan Evans Grove

Stopped at a roadblock Janet Armstrong becomes the primary suspect in a twisting and turning plot of murder and betrayal. 

Elva La Treque is stunning as Janet Armstrong in this starring role. The film opens with Janet driving at night and being stopped by a policeman at a roadblock. When she learns the road block is there because there has been a deadly accident, she recognizes the car as belonging to her date whom she has just left 20 minutes earlier. She dashes out of the car to learn the truth that it is in fact her date who has just been fatally struck by another car and left for dead.

We flashback to the conversation at dinner between Janet and the victim discovering clues about what has happened to the young man and why. When Janet becomes a suspect the audience roots for her reasoning that she she could not have possibly have hit the man and then returned to the roadblock. We become frustrated with the assumptions of the police and the prosecutor. Finally she is exonerated and we feel satisfied for a split second until the closing scene where she is driving away, sun on her face, flashing back to the night she actually did kill the man.

It’s a joy to see La Treque and La Rocque (mostly in flashbacks) together again on the  silver screen, even though off screen their relationship had begun to crumble.