Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt.
Is it worth your time? If you've got seventy minutes to kill and a soft spot for pre-code era B-movies, sure. It’s got that specific, rattling energy of a film made in a weekend, mostly for people who enjoy watching guys in suits yell at each other in offices. If you’re looking for high-art noir, you’re gonna be bored ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Phil Rosen
Edgar Jones
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"Is it worth your time? If you've got seventy minutes to kill and a soft spot for pre-code era B-movies, sure. It’s got that specific, rattling energy of a film made in a weekend, mostly for people who enjoy watching guys in suits yell at each other in offices. If you’re looking for high-art noir, you’re gonna be bored out of your skull. Who will hate it? People who need their plots to make sense or their lighting to be more than just 'bright and flat.' It moves fast, maybe too fast, like the ed..."
Edward Hearn
Paul Perez, Ewart Adamson, Arthur T. Horman
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