The most interesting character here is Zachary Scott as Rex Durant, an ex-boxer in a wheel-chair whose passion for boxing only seems to have grown the worse for his invalidity. Alexis Smith, beautiful, stylish and impressing as ever, is here a mysterious lady with a secret who gets involved with Dane Clark only to suddenly desert him. She has a brother, Jeffreý Lynn, who is a drunkard and a doctor and practising. Like in all noirs, there is a fashionable night club, where Alexis Smith sings and where things happen involving hoodlums.
The painter Michael Angelo was a part actually written for John Garfield, but he left before the film could be shot. Dane Clark is not bad, but he is a bit short for Alexis Smith, who is a bit tall. The story is good, and all the questinoable pieces fall into place towards the end, when the dyspeptic doctor at last decides to do something about a very troublesome situation involving them all. We never learn what happened to the hoodlums.
In spite of the lack of John Garfield, it's an excellent movie, I found nothing wrong with it, but the eyes of Zachary Scott is what will stick in your mind.
The painter Michael Angelo was a part actually written for John Garfield, but he left before the film could be shot. Dane Clark is not bad, but he is a bit short for Alexis Smith, who is a bit tall. The story is good, and all the questinoable pieces fall into place towards the end, when the dyspeptic doctor at last decides to do something about a very troublesome situation involving them all. We never learn what happened to the hoodlums.
In spite of the lack of John Garfield, it's an excellent movie, I found nothing wrong with it, but the eyes of Zachary Scott is what will stick in your mind.