Strange Alibi is a 1941 American film noir directed by D. Ross Lederman, written by Kenneth Gamet, Leslie T. White and Fred Niblo Jr.,[1] and starring Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, John Ridgely, Florence Bates and Charles Trowbridge.

After a witness is shot and a suspect hanged in a jail cell, Police Chief Sprague decides to send Sgt.

Joe Geary undercover, looking for a mysterious crime-syndicate boss responsible for ordering these murders.

Everything in it has been seen before—particularly the sets—but the concoction has been tossed together again under director D. Ross Lederman to become a speedy and delectable dish.”[2] In a review bylined “T.S.”, The New York Times wrote: ”Latest addition to the "I wuz framed" school of cops-and-robbers epics is "Strange Alibi," …More high-minded than original, the Warner Brothers are again searching out corruption in high places even if their hero is rooked of his freedom for a spell in the effort.

But when dead men can provide alibis, when true love remains patient and when all the bullets fired at the hero seem made of nothing more dangerous than cream cheese, one can await the climax with calm.