Eddie Robinson's life may be flashing before his eyes but we only get to see the tortured, hysterical part. In other words, a rather loud, crude, misogynistic and, admittedly at times, powerful film from Mervin Le Roy's early, bleak period before he realized that life wasn't just electric chairs and chain gangs and thankfully decided to lighten things up.
Robinson is over the top pretty much throughout the film. Doing a better job in the thankless, sexist, floozie fatale role is Vivienne Osborne. Ultimately, the movie left a pretty bad taste in the mouth as the message seemed to be that if a married gal supports her husband by being a sex worker then she deserves a bullet in the gut. C plus.
Robinson is over the top pretty much throughout the film. Doing a better job in the thankless, sexist, floozie fatale role is Vivienne Osborne. Ultimately, the movie left a pretty bad taste in the mouth as the message seemed to be that if a married gal supports her husband by being a sex worker then she deserves a bullet in the gut. C plus.