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Fishermen Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson are confronted by gangster Harold Goff who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men. Afraid to go to the law, the two men decide to take matters into their own hands after Goff falls in love with Jonah's daughter Stella. Written by
Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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Trivia
Humphrey Bogart was originally chosen to play Harold Goff. However,
Ida Lupino had just finished shooting
They Drive by Night and
High Sierra with Bogart, and they had not gotten along. Lupino protested, and because she'd had a bigger name than Bogart at the time, she got her way, forcing an angry Bogart to shoot off a telegram to
Jack L. Warner asking, "When did Ida Lupino start casting films at your studio?"
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Quotes
Olaf Johnson:
A man with the brain of a bank president!
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Connections
Featured in
The John Garfield Story (2003)
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Soundtracks
"Concert in the Park"
(uncredited)
Written by
Cliff Friend and
Dave Franklin
Played in the bar at the beginning
Also played when Jonah and Olaf discuss moving the boat to Gravesend Bay
Also played at the end
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What a treat! I just watched this movie, and apart from the ending which makes things come into place a little too neatly and quickly for my taste, I loved it. Not least the sense of style that Litvak and cameraman par excellence Wong Howe use to make this not very inspiring script come to life. The huge set, a provincial fishing village in Brooklyn, is wonderfully lit and photographed, only partly visible through the fog that weigh on young lusty Ida Lupino's mind as she dreams of better things, of Cuba and crystal-clear water, of glamorous, dangerous men who take what they want and make no excuses for themselves. At times the story is so downbeat that it takes a small miracle here and there to rise above it, but nearly all is ultimately forgiven. John Garfield is deliciously wicked as the racketeer who sets out to destroy everybody's lives in order to eke out his own beastly living, Thomas Mitchell and Anthony Qualen are brilliant in the real starring parts as the two old-timers who finally realize that they have to make a stand against the evil of this world. In a small, but significant part as a hilarious, bankrupt man in a sauna, George Tobias shines. If it ever comes your way, you should see it. It's the real thing.