The Squeaker (U.S. release title: Murder on Diamond Row). Basedon an Edgar Wallace mystery, "The Squeaker is an extremely handsomeproduction, benefiting from a good cast, fine photography from Georges Perinal(Cocteau's favorite cameraman), and polished, efficient direction fromHollywood's William K. Howard. Howard was a veteran and expert craftsman when itcame to high-powered and stylishly mounted thrillers, and he worked with starEdmund Lowe much as John Ford worked with John Wayne. Actually, in this case theproduction mountings are somewhat superior to the script°.But if the story holdsfew surprises, the treatment is constantly interesting, full of moments of realvisual excitement-the killer writing his demands on the mist of his car windowwhile his face remains unseen, or the nightmarish Fritz Lang-like sequence of theclimactic police trap."-William K. Everson