First, we’ll finish the poker hand. Then we’ll go back on set and finish this crummy movie.
Blonde for a Day (1946) is one of a series of murderous whodunits featuring Michael Shayne, PI. Unfortunately, while Hugh Beaumont may have made a great Ward Cleaver, when it came to hard-boiled PIs he had nothing on the originator of the Michael Shayne role, Lloyd Nolan. Without Nolan’s charm as a not-quite competent PI, the plot holes actually matter in this mediocre head-scratcher in which even the name is a trifle dubious.
