A dancer (Evelyn Keyes), a casino gambler (Dick Powell) and a detective (Lee J. Cobb) want to know who has killed a policeman and a hatchecker.
anti-hero, gambler, pretty woman, love interest, cop, brooding, gritty, new york city, casino, gambling, shady dealings, murder, romance, love, transformation, 1940s
The caustically epigrammatic script, the cast's suavely controlled gestures of love and menace, and Rossen's thrillingly restrained and stylishly assertive images... make this pugnacious yet intricate spectacle a hidden classic of the genre.
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