A real surprise, this is a fast and tight social drama made by the always reliable Jack Arnold, among the early American movies that dealt with the issue of the Latin American workers and peasants who illegally cross the Mexico-USA border, but encounter situations extreme as in this case, in which one of them meets death on one of the farms of a powerful and corrupt landowner (Orson Welles), who is practically the owner of the town and the lands of the region, and who faces a Just Sheriff (Jeff Chandler) when he tries to cover up the violence and mistreatment suffered by immigrants hired in the same illegal way as they entered the United States. If this was one of those B-films made to fill the double bills, it is surely superior than quite a few of the A-fluff produced by Universal at that time, such as "Tammy and the Bachelor" or "This Happy Feeling".
Review of Man in the Shadow
