Described by the late David Shipman as "even more needlessly vicious than most of Fuller's films". I first saw the last half-hour of this film when I was 12, just in time for the eye-watering scene when one of the cast is riddled with bullets while taking a bath; in a scene I found even more upsetting than the shower sequence in 'Psycho'.
A ruthless forerunner of 'The League of Gentlemen', with a gang of dishonourably discharged wartime GI's pooling their talents for criminal ends. Shot in CinemaScope & DeLuxe Color, it does for Tokyo what 'Pickup on South Street' did for New York, vividly designed and elegantly shot; the only flaw being the bland music by Leigh Harline.
Robert Ryan plays one of his meanest villains in a role that recalls Cagney's in 'White Heat' without Cagney's likability; Ryan's Achilles' heel proving his infatuation with Robert Stack, who performs a similar function to Edmond O'Brien in the Cagney picture.
A ruthless forerunner of 'The League of Gentlemen', with a gang of dishonourably discharged wartime GI's pooling their talents for criminal ends. Shot in CinemaScope & DeLuxe Color, it does for Tokyo what 'Pickup on South Street' did for New York, vividly designed and elegantly shot; the only flaw being the bland music by Leigh Harline.
Robert Ryan plays one of his meanest villains in a role that recalls Cagney's in 'White Heat' without Cagney's likability; Ryan's Achilles' heel proving his infatuation with Robert Stack, who performs a similar function to Edmond O'Brien in the Cagney picture.