Typically brisk and economic thriller from Siegel, featuring a particularly good silent sequence of high speed car chase ending in death, and then the brazen theft of stolen money. Steve Cochran is good as the cop gone wrong and hoping to win over materialistic nightclub singer Ida Lupino. Howard Duff, the family man married to Dorothy Malone, wants to go straight, their boss Dean Jagger is on the case.
Ida Lupino and Collier Young wrote it and it was made for their production company The Filmakers. They were drinking too much vodka as was most of the cast and it was not a happy shoot. It tuned out well, though, and is very watchable. Burnett Guffey shot it in the same year he won the Oscar for From Here to Eternity.
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