Highly enjoyable adaptation of the Warners film. The first third is the weakest, dealing with the brothers - George Raft returns but Humphrey Bogart doesn’t. However, the writers (or producers or whoever) seemed to realise they didn’t have enough plot for a whole film, so they added this second bit (two thirds of it) where Raft goes to work for another trucker and has the wife of the trucker fall in lust with him.
Lucille Ball is highly effective in a dramatic role with some great hysteria scenes. Lana Turner steps in for Ann Sheridan - while she would have been decent enough on screen with her stunning looks, she's not much of a radio actor.
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