Dancing With Crime (1947)

When a good army buddy (Bill Rowbotham) is murdered, a taxi driver (Richard Attenborough) and his fiancee (Sheila Sim) investigate on their own. She goes undercover as a dancer in a nightclub where the dead man was last seen. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs (A WEEKEND WITH LULU), this minor British crime noir is on the simple side and is more entertaining than it has a right to be. Its lead character (Attenborough) carelessly puts his girlfriend in harms way and when a criminal mastermind (Barry Jones) poses as a policeman, he doesn't even bother to ask for identification and spouts off information that will aid the bad guys! And this is our hero! Still, it may be formulaic but it delivers the goods, however damaged. Married in real life, Attenborough and Sim make for an attractive pair. With Diana Dors (not yet a blonde), Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly and John Warwick.