A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties..


Is this thing worth a watch? If you like movies where people talk really fast and smoke until the room turns grey, then yes. If you need your crime dramas to be subtle or realistic, skip it. You’ll probably hate it if you can’t stand watching a protagonist get kicked around for ninety minutes straight. Bette Davis is ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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"Is this thing worth a watch? If you like movies where people talk really fast and smoke until the room turns grey, then yes. If you need your crime dramas to be subtle or realistic, skip it. You’ll probably hate it if you can’t stand watching a protagonist get kicked around for ninety minutes straight. Bette Davis is just magnetic. She plays Mary Dwight, a hostess at a club that’s definitely not a place you’d want to take your mom. She’s got this way of looking at Humphrey Bogart that makes you..."
Abem Finkel, Robert Rossen, Seton I. Miller
United States
Thriller, Crime, Drama

