Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fresh and Exciting

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is a very low budgeted film. However despite this, it manages to be both entertaining and worth your time.The story begins with a medical trial being run at Alcatraz prison. The men have been told that for participating they will be released after the study is concluded. Oddly, one of the patients (Robert Shayne) murders another one of the patients and the radioactive isotope they're using is blamed. And, the program is canceled and the men released...even the killer (which is odd).Dr. Williams (John Howard) is frustrated that his program was canceled and he vows to prove that his formula was NOT responsible for the murder. So, he sets out to find a motive for the killing...and quickly get the crap beaten out of him and more! So why did the prisoner kill his friend? The finale for this one is excellent but even without that the story is quite nice and the acting very good despite the folks mostly being small-time from B-movies.

At one hour running time, this couldn't even be considered a "B" movie. I suppose it defines the term programmer. Whatever it is, and however much it cost to produce, I think it's a winner. The legendary director, Eddie Cahn, manages to take an unknown cast and a dime store plot and turn it into a tight little mystery. Cahn, like Bill "One Shot" Beaudine and others were masters at using pocket change to turn out two reelers that are somehow able to capture the viewers attention. The plot, such as it is, involves the Army using radioactive isotopes on convicts from Alcatraz to help find a cure for a mysterious blood disease. (I wonder what the ACLU would have to say about that today). The experiment backfires and the hero begins to smell a rat. With the help of his nurse, his investigation leads to a criminal conspiracy involving the head rat - or the head guinea pig. But enough about that. Ignore the story and the unknown and mostly untalented cast. Enjoy the mystery, the pace, and the trip back to the land of double breasted pinstripe suits, Studebakers, and cliches. I voted 8/10

With a leading duo of John Howard, fresh from "Radar Secret Service", and Joan Dixon, about to appear in "Bunco Squad", "Hot Lead" and "Pistol Harvest", how can this picture be anything but the comic, laughing piece of wasted celluloid that it is.John Howard, as Dr Ross Williams, exposes convicts to the healing rays of radioactive minerals, expecting to 'cure' them of some disease that I missed learning about. One of the exposed convicts kills another and the efficacy of the treatment is questioned.More silly non-sequitors occur and the entire thing devolves - hard as it may be to believe.Here comes the spoiler - 10 minutes from the end - the hero is killed. Good, but still the movie goes on.

An intriguing crime story with radiation as the plot's pivotal element. A group of Alcatraz convicts volunteer to be guinea pigs in an experiment seeking to find a cure for a blood disease (apparently related to leukemia). The convicts led by Robert Shayne (the old Superman TV show's Inspector Henderson) are only interested in gaining their freedom. The unexpected effect the radiation has on one prisoner subject leads a doctor and a nurse into a dangerous investigation which is their only hope to salvage their now damaged careers. The current negative attitude towards radiation adds an ironic counterpoint to the protagonists' noble desire to cure said blood disease, which incidentally has infected the nurse's brother. Good atmosphere and a taut narrative make this B picture worth watching.