Summary
Crime thriller starring Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor. Detective Walter Brown is given the dangerous task of making sure that a gangster's widow reaches Los Angeles to testify in front of the grand jury before she is silenced by the Mob.
Crime thriller starring Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor. Detective Walter Brown is given the dangerous task of making sure that a gangster's widow reaches Los Angeles to testify in front of the grand jury before she is silenced by the Mob.
This rattlingly good (literally!) train thriller epitomises the very best of the style now known and recognised as film noir. It's directed with a wonderful sense of the claustrophobic by Richard Fleischer and is terrifically performed by tough guy Charles McGraw. He's the cop taking floozy Marie Windsor - who herself is quite superb - to testify to the grand jury, with evidence that will send a mobster gang to the chair. Naturally enough, they don't want her to squeal. The suspense is acute, nobody is quite who they seem to be, and the action is riveting. A classic B-movie, if ever there was one. It was efficiently remade with Gene Hackman in 1990.
role | name |
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Walter Brown | Charles McGraw |
Mrs Neil | Marie Windsor |
Ann Sinclair | Jacqueline White |
Tommy Sinclair | Gordon Gebert |
Mrs Troll | Queenie Leonard |
Kemp | David Clarke |
Densel | Peter Virgo |
role | name |
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Director | Richard Fleischer |