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Overall Rank: 3220
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 35
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/1953
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 11/03/2009
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan
Plot: Dave Bannion is a tough but honest cop - and is on the trail of gang he believe has its hooks in the police department. The deeper he gets, the more dangerous it gets - until his own wife takes the fall for a bomb mean for him. Now seeking vengeance - he teams with a gangster's spurned girlfriend - not realizing both are falling further into a trap. -- Chris Kavan
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Indyfreak - wrote on 07/01/2019
Terse and lean film noir about a tough cop (Ford) declaring war on the mob controlling his city after they murder his wife.
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Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/18/2019
This Fritz Lang noir is an tense and sometimes disturbing movie about violent and sinister people.
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Yojimbo - wrote on 05/21/2012
Fritz Lang directs Glen Ford as an uncompromising cop on the trail of organized criminals and corrupt officers in his own department, and when a car bomb kills his young wife, the gloves definitely come off...One of the toughest early noirs you're going to see, Ford reinforces his tough guy credentials and faces off against a young Lee Marvin as a brutal mobster. The on and off screen violence is some of the most brutally realistic you are going to see in a film of this era; I can't remember an earlier film that featured a car bomb, and as such this can be seen as a direct influence on the modern gangster flick. The sentiment is ladled on a little too thickly in portraying Ford's home life, the other female characters (Gloria Grahame's tart with a heart and woman scorned, and Jeanette …
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