Girl on the Spot (1946)

Weepie McGurk (played by Richard Lane, left in the picture) murders a night club owner, but immediately afterwards a girl (Kathy Lorenz, played by Lois Collier) turns up for an audition with the now-dead owner. McGurk pretends to be the man and lets the girl audition. True to his nickname, he is moved by her singing and starts to weep, but he has to tell her that there is no job for her.

Later, as the death of the club owner is now known, Kathy is under suspicion as she was there at the time. However her father has found a backer for a production of the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance and Kathy recognises him as Weepie.

Weepie decides that her evidence could spell trouble for him, so he decides to kill her too. He decides to do so by shooting her at the premiere of the Pirates so naturally enough he goes along with a friend, Fingers Foley (Edward Brophy), posing as a middle aged women to do the deed from the auditorium. The attempt is frustrated and Weepie and Fingers are arrested.

The music of Gilbert & Sullivan is featured prominently in the film soundtrack, and is a better theme than the very weak plot.

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