. This is flip side B-movie through and through. I like many fifties crime movies for their tight directing slick dialogue this had none of that, Chandleresque it was not. Of course it was Spillaine but even Spillaine wrote better stuff. In fact it was on the brink of parody with the obligatory bar room singer singing a forgettable song and the down beat Hammer looking fed up drooping into his glass and most of the other stereotyped ethnics doing their bit to look streetwise. You could make a good send up of the genre taking essentials from this movie. The acting was abysmal and most of the script was flat. The only lively dialogue was with the interview with the Feds but it never kept it up. I'll forgive the silly radiation effects as the fifties public had little understanding of the hazards like when Dr No fell into an open reactor.
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