Terrific cast on display here: Richard Conte (then a rising star, as a lawyer who remembers growing up in the tenements), Diana Lynn (as the girl he loved who got an offer to be a mistress), Shirley Booth (Lynn’s adulterous mother), Karl Malden (sleazy neighbour), Thelma Ritter (gossip). I enjoyed this more than I thought – it’s a pretty good melodrama (although most of the big stuff happens at the end, the rest is more slice-of-life and character build up). The impact is not what it was eighty years ago because it’s been much imitated but the themes and dilemmas remain universal.
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