Film Forum

U.S., 1948
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Starring Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed
Approx. 62 min. 35mm.

Written by Robert Altman at just 23, rock-tough Lawrence Tierney gets railroaded by the police, then takes a crummy job guarding the doyenne of a meatpacking company, to promptly find himself waking up next to the corpse of the boss who fired him.

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“... an out-and-out action show in which producer Sid Rogell achieves fast-moving melodramatic effect by twisting the chase device into 62 minutes of fast-moving, entertaining celluloid.”
– The Hollywood Reporter