Efficient, independent noir thriller, featuring washed up boxer John Payne (Miracle on 34th Street, and the previous year's Kansas City Confidential, also directed by Karlson) whose marriage to Peggie Castle is also washed up - she's having a thing with a murdering robber Brad Dexter.
He's also mixed up (in a platonic way) with Broadway wannabe Evelyn Keyes (Hell's Half Acre), who suckers him into a fake murder scene at the theatre (this is a lovely twist scene); he loses it, violently, but is even more upset when his wife is murdered and he looks like the suspect. The film is typified by violent fights and violent characters.
From producer Ed Small, who'd given us T-Men and Raw Deal. Walk a Crooked Mile is (according to Eddie Muller) worth checking out also.
Photographed by Franz Planer, edited by Ed's son Buddy Small. With Frank Faylen (buddy at taxi co), Jay Adler, and Jack Lambert (heavy, The Killers, The Enforcer) who kept annoying Q by hitting Payne on the neck.
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