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WWII has ended and Joe Bernardi has just returned home after 3 years as a warfare correspondent in Europe. Married in the heat of enthusiasm three weeks before he sent out, he has come home to find his partner Lydia is an entire stranger. It isn't a long time before Lydia's off to Reno for a quickie divorce which Joe won't acknowledge. In the mean time, he's been chosen as a publicist by third-rate movie studio room, Continental Pictures. One nights, he enters a darkened audio stage only to discover the useless body of ambitious would-be actress Maggie Baumann. When the police investigate, they immediately zero in on Joe as the perp. Short on research, they attempt to frame him and almost succeed. Needy to clear himself and uncover the personality of the real killer, Joe enlists the assistance of Russ Parmelee, the studio's main of security. There's no scarcity of suspects: May Britton, over the hill actress attempting to produce a comeback. Brick Baxter, whose quick career as a leading man has been threatened by the go back of real celebrities like Gable and Power and Stewart. Kingman Krug, a hack director who would rather be helming his next epic film rather than this movie trash. Dave Clancy, who remarks to be always a reporter from Chicago but is another person totally. Leo Blaustein, studio room hatchetman and also require been keeping Maggie in a plush apartment. Al Kaplan, an ex-husband still carrying a red-hot torch. Sal Maggio, a guy of many hobbies, the majority of them illegal, who has an extremely personal reason for desiring this film to achieve success. The story steps headlong toward an exciting and unexpected finishing, weaving it's way by using a web of blackmail, betrayal, and extortion.
