
Is it worth your time? If you've got a soft spot for 1930s crime dramas where everyone wears a hat and the stakes feel weirdly polite, yeah, check it out. It's not reinventing the wheel, but it's got that nice, lived-in feel. If you need explosions every five minutes or characters with modern motivations, you're gonna ...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Ralph Murphy

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"Is it worth your time? If you've got a soft spot for 1930s crime dramas where everyone wears a hat and the stakes feel weirdly polite, yeah, check it out. It's not reinventing the wheel, but it's got that nice, lived-in feel. If you need explosions every five minutes or characters with modern motivations, you're gonna have a bad time. Stay away. Fred MacMurray is doing that thing he does—being charming and slightly evasive at the same time. He shows up in this Kansas town looking like he belong..."

Dean Jagger
Howard J. Green, Dale Van Every, Marguerite Roberts, Kubec Glasmon
United States

