Blu-ray Review – Cover Up

1949's "Cover Up" was sold as a heated noir, with leathery men, a smoking gun, and a blazing dame on the original poster, promising a vigorous display of crime and assorted sins. The picture isn't anywhere near those standards of escapism, but it's an interesting mystery from director Alfred E. Green, who captures the askew dramatic drive of the screenplay, which provides a new identity for the standard detective tale. In "Cover Up," an insurance man (played by Dennis O'Keefe) is the protagonist, using his history with fraud to pry open an unusual case of murder in small town U.S.A. I'm not sure a premise like this could even work in 2015. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com