Some of the language waffles a bit but the central situation so strong, and the characters too, that it doesn't matter. This film helped establish a classic template much used in subsequent years - to wit, a group of people get stuck at a Diner when an escaped criminal and his gang arrive.
I haven't seen the film but it's easy to see Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart play their characters - and they are great roles too, the self-loathing former gigolo who tries to arrange his own death and the honorable thief; the girl would take clever casting to make all that fussing over her worth while. There are some strong support roles, such as the anecdote-happy grandpa and the unhappily married rich couple.
There's an awful lot of gunplay for a stage play - I wonder how this worked in the theatre.
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