it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
... View MoreThe best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
... View MoreOne of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
... View MoreThe film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
... View MoreI am surprised that no one has commented it yet. After all, it's a Robert Florey's film, the guy who gave us already some B movies from Paramount Studios, the famous ones I talk sometimes about, starring J Caroll Naish, Loyd Nolan, Anthony Quinn. Very quick and fast paced crime flicks, as Warner ones were. The story was written by J Edgard Hoover, the famous FBI director for fifty years, and also by Horace MacCoy. It could have been a sort of expose, especially when we watch the beginning of this feature, but there is no off voice, as we could expect. Anthony Quinn plays here a ruthless gangster on parole who kills a cop and participates at a kidnapping. This film also speaks about the problem of hard boiled criminals to whom the justice gives a chance of redemption. I guess that was the message of this film.
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