The version of The Devil Pays Off on the internet is missing something like 15 minutes, at least I think so. There's a disjointed sequence in act two where a captain who holds all of the information to solve the case has just been put into a coma by some nefarious men, and then we jump cut to him laughing and drinking with our heroes in a stateroom. In any case, the movie itself is also quite a disjointed thing, moving rather awkwardly in lots of ways with some very silly writing that doesn't quite work. Still, the story could have been rather cool with a better screenplay. It's a kind of poor man's Gilda or Affair in Trinidad, but William Wright is really charming!
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