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• Bob S

  
  Widmark is hysterically great and there's some nice cinematography and NY locations - unfortunately the pacing is glacial, the point of view is uncertain and Victor Mature...well he's really dull. To be fair, this type of docu-noir probably packed a lot more kick in the… More
  Widmark is hysterically great and there's some nice cinematography and NY locations - unfortunately the pacing is glacial, the point of view is uncertain and Victor Mature...well he's really dull. To be fair, this type of docu-noir probably packed a lot more kick in the years before TV took the judicial procedural as its meat and potatoes.

• AJ V

  
  An all-star cast with a heart-felt story, but it could have done a better job at presenting the story or something, I just felt it could have been better in some way. Still, I think this is a good movie, and very worth seeing.

• Cindy I

  
  This is billed as a film noir, but it plays more as a crime drama. Victor Mature plays Nick Bianco, a robber who agrees to "snitch" on his cohorts in a heist in order to see his young daughters. It's a decent suspense film, but it is most memorable not for the main… More
  This is billed as a film noir, but it plays more as a crime drama. Victor Mature plays Nick Bianco, a robber who agrees to "snitch" on his cohorts in a heist in order to see his young daughters. It's a decent suspense film, but it is most memorable not for the main story but rather for the character of Johnny Udo, a giggling psycho played by Richard Widmark in his first role. What Johnny does to the old lady in the wheelchair is now the stuff of film legend. Widmark steals every scene he's in, which admittedly isn't hard since Victor Mature isn't much of an actor and I found Colleen Gray to be kind of a dull presense. But the film is still a damn sight better than a lot of others I could name.

• Randy T

  
  Noir to the core. A spattering of memorable moments, not the least of which is the psychotic hit-man [Richard Widmark] sending an old woman flying down a flight of stairs in her wheelchair. (Ouch!)

• Stella D

  
  without widmark's giggling psycho tommy udo this would just be boring. and he's not even on the poster lol

• jay n

  
  Richard Widmark is deeply creepy in this but there are better noirs out there.

• Michael G

  
  Worth it for Richard Widmark alone. And the wheelchair scene. (It gets me every time.)

• Lanning :

  
  If only to witness Richard Widmark assisting the elderly, this film is a must; he's amazing in this. Mature's work is excellent as well.

• Danny R

  
  Classic film noir brilliantly directed by Henry Hathaway, about a small-time hoodlum Nick Bianco, played superbly by Victor Mature in the best lead performance of his career who is convicted of a jewel heist and sent to prison, after spending three years in prison he is double crossed… More
  Classic film noir brilliantly directed by Henry Hathaway, about a small-time hoodlum Nick Bianco, played superbly by Victor Mature in the best lead performance of his career who is convicted of a jewel heist and sent to prison, after spending three years in prison he is double crossed by his shyster lawyer, he also learns of his wife suicide and that his children has been sent away to an orphanage, so he then makes a deal with the assistant district attorney played nicely by Brian Donlevy and is paroled, but it's not going to be easy for Nick, he must testify against a giggling sadistic killer named Tommy Udo who works for the mob, played with great menace by Richard Widmark who makes his remarkable Oscar nominated screen debut as the psychotic maniac Udo. This film made a star out of Widmark, there is a infamous and very memorable scene where Udo pushes a helpless crippled old lady in wheelchair down a flight of stairs to her death, so she won't squeal! Beautiful black & white cinematography by Norbert Brodine. A gripping, exciting crime drama. Highly Recommended.

• cody f

  
  This entire film is Richard Widmark! The story isn't bad, but the love story is horrendous.Victor Mature does a great job as the leading man and brings some freshness as a tough guy who loves his family. I have seen some Film Noir done a lot better and the movie is saved because… More
  This entire film is Richard Widmark! The story isn't bad, but the love story is horrendous.Victor Mature does a great job as the leading man and brings some freshness as a tough guy who loves his family. I have seen some Film Noir done a lot better and the movie is saved because the last half hour is great(except for the L.A.Confidential ending). As I said this is Widmark's movie and he was nominated for a Oscar for this role. This movie made him a star and his performance in this film is still talked about today. It must have been shocking to see a bat-shit crazy homicidal maniac like Tommy Udo in 1947.The censors and the studio cut this film up and if Hathaway got his way with the film it would have been darker and way ahead of it's time.

• Anthony V

  
  Richard Widmark is one of the greatest screen villains of all time.

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