Lawrence Tierney reunites with his Dillinger director. Max Nosseck for an Eagle Lion Picture (they also made The Hoodlum) and it's an entertaining low budget Alan Ladd/Bogart type film with Tierney as an engineer in South America who is falsely accused of murder. He falls in love with a married woman and goes to work as an overseer. There's a scene where someone dies and the camera pans around all these villagers while the music plays this Enrico Morricone-style score which is cool. George Coolouris gives the support cast some class.
Not a bad "C" type movie. I think this had some location filming in Portugal? Lacks the polish of something in this genre of a studio "B" but I enjoy junky tales of adventure in the Hollywood third world.
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