This is a moving story. Hayden's no-nonsense protagonist feelings arc affectingly from one emotional place to another and another and another. Other scenes were so emotionally affecting I found them hard to watch-- a key subplot about a husband and wife. A scene that gathers much of the cast together at the end is about twelve years ahead of its time, and a scene shortly afterwards recalls Citizen Kane and samurai movies.
This is a great gangster picture, great film noir right up there with Double Indemnity, High Sierra, Key Largo, The Petrified Forest, The Postman Always Rings Twice (I'm thinking of the John Garfield version.), and White Heat,
Stanley Kubrick made this movie. Six years later he made one of his masterpieces- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- also shot in black-and-white, also featuring Sterling Hayden in a key role. You like one, you'll probably like the other.
After Kirk Douglas saw this film, he moved heaven and earth to get Kubrick to direct his next project, Paths of Glory, and championed him when a new director was needed in the epic Spartacus.
Some technical problems in the film distracted me- use of some footage over and over and over, an obviously fake rear projection, that the money is obviously play money.
This is a great gangster picture, great film noir right up there with Double Indemnity, High Sierra, Key Largo, The Petrified Forest, The Postman Always Rings Twice (I'm thinking of the John Garfield version.), and White Heat,
Stanley Kubrick made this movie. Six years later he made one of his masterpieces- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- also shot in black-and-white, also featuring Sterling Hayden in a key role. You like one, you'll probably like the other.
After Kirk Douglas saw this film, he moved heaven and earth to get Kubrick to direct his next project, Paths of Glory, and championed him when a new director was needed in the epic Spartacus.
Some technical problems in the film distracted me- use of some footage over and over and over, an obviously fake rear projection, that the money is obviously play money.
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