Cy Endfield's best known American film. The story of two crooks - Frank Lovejoy, Lloyd Bridges - who commit a crime.
Kathleen Ryan from Odd Man Out Is Lovejoy's woman. Lovejoy does his craggy 40s/50s ugly leading man thing. Bridges gets to act up a storm. Richard Carlson is a rabble rousing journo who has an unconvincing change of heart after he talks to Ryan and gets lectured to by a dull European. There's lots of talks about ethics.
But the drama is well done. The seediness, the descent into crime, the sad eyed look of women, the power of the final lynching.
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