- Film Review
- Reviewed By Adrian Turner
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3 out of 5
Reuniting the stars of the classic Build My Gallows High, and also going down Mexico way, Don Siegel's third feature is a thriller with more mirth than menace, and the sexual banter between Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer sometimes rivals that of Bogart and Bacall. The plot is simple - $300,000 of army payroll money has gone missing - and the extended chase throws up a great deal of subplots and shifty characters, notably Ramon Novarro, star of the silent version of Ben-Hur, as a lazy police chief who lets the criminals solve their own crime. Real locations, rather than studio backdrops, are an asset, and Siegel - who later made Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dirty Harry - never lets the pace sag or the shoestring budget show.
Plot Summary
Film noir starring Robert Mitchum. An army officer, framed for a payroll robbery, doggedly pursues the real criminal with the help of the man's former fiancée.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Lieutenant Duke Halliday
- Robert Mitchum
- Joan Graham
- Jane Greer
- Captain Vincent Blake
- William Bendix
- Jim Fiske
- Patric Knowles
- Colonel Ortega
- Ramon Novarro
- Lieutenant Ruiz
- Don Alvarado
- Julius Seton
- John Qualen
- Manuel
- Pasqual Garcia Peña
Crew
- Director
- Don Siegel
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