The only film Abraham Polonsky was able to direct before he fell afoul of McCarthyite witch hunters (the only one until Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, two decades later), a morality play against a background of the numbers racket. The tough-guy language and ambience have rich veins of poetry in them, and John Garfield has one of his better roles as a mob mouthpiece with a rediscovered conscience. Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor. (1948) — Duncan Shepherd
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