COVER UP no stars

Dennis O'Keefe co-wrote "Cover Up" almost certainly as a vehicle for himself. He plays an insurance investigator who comes to a small town to investigate an apparent suicide only to find the whole town's not talking and the suicide was probably murder. It's a film that can't make up its mind if it's a romantic comedy or a whodunit and finally fails at being either. William Bendix gets star billing as the local sheriff, (he kept reminding me of Bing Crosby), and walks off with the picture which is just strange enough to pass muster but that, by the way, is not a recommendation.