One of a series of unpretentious film noirs director Richard Fleischer made at RKO with writer Earl Fenyon - others included Trapped and The Narrow Margin, as well as uncredited work on His King of Woman. It's enjoyable low key stuff where everyone talks tough. Charles Macgraw is the detective - he can act and has a hulking frame and I can see why he has fans but he wasn't that charimatic.
But the support cast is strong notably William Talman as the head robber, Douglas Fowley as his slimy partner and Adele Jurgens as the latter's unfaithful wife.
It only clocks in at 67 minutes. The photography is enjoyable as is the tough dialogue.
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