Based on the adjectives used by my IMDB colleagues below to describe this 1946 gangster film..."routine", "mediocre", "formula", "typical"...I'd say they had it pegged pretty accurately. I would only add the caveat that, for me, no film in which Zachary Scott is the star, giving his usual inimitable take on amoral, self pitying, alternately charming and sleazy bon vivants ,can be entirely shrugged off. So let me add my own adjective, one I've just coined, to delineate this film,"teeter-totter-ish". Whenever Scott's in the picture it rises a bit above the schlock line and when he's not, especially when the proceedings are weighed down by the poor man's Richard Conte, Dane Clark, and the voluptuous but talentless, as both actor and singer, Janis Page, it falls. Give it a C plus.
PS...Paradoxically, I'm happy to note that Ms. Page is (hopefully) still going strong at 100.
PSS...Sickest and therefore most interesting relationship in the film is that between Scott and his adoring, Widmark-esque, punk gunsel, Candy, played to perfection by future Los Angeles hamburger entrepreneur, Harry Lewis. Yet another reason in my opinion why this film cannot be completely thrown into the generic dumpster.
PS...Paradoxically, I'm happy to note that Ms. Page is (hopefully) still going strong at 100.
PSS...Sickest and therefore most interesting relationship in the film is that between Scott and his adoring, Widmark-esque, punk gunsel, Candy, played to perfection by future Los Angeles hamburger entrepreneur, Harry Lewis. Yet another reason in my opinion why this film cannot be completely thrown into the generic dumpster.