Usually the most routine of programmers will have something to recommend it: inventive cinematography, creative use of lighting and/or sound, a gem of a performance by a virtual unknown, a clever plot. Here is a film which, to give it the benefit of the doubt, is second-rate in all respects, a film whose budget, however slight, could have been put to better use. Virtually every twist and turn of the contrived story had been used elsewhere, the characters with whom we would identify are undeveloped and unappealing, and leading man Lawrence Tierney, stoical to a fault, had surely received his training at the George Raft School of Acting.
With so many worthy films never shown on television, it is most unfortunate that a network chose to devote airtime to this one. Movies like this give B-pictures a bad name.
With so many worthy films never shown on television, it is most unfortunate that a network chose to devote airtime to this one. Movies like this give B-pictures a bad name.