The film Scene of the Crime, directed by Roy Rowland and written by Charles Schnee (adapting "Smashing the Bookie Gang Members" by John Bartlow Martin), features Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, John McIntire, and Leon Ames. André Previn composed the music, and Paul Vogel was responsible for the cinematography. Following the suspicious death of a colleague, detective Mike Conovan (Johnson) begi…