Storyline

Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.—Ed Stephan

Plot Keywords

revolver, pool hall, cigarette smoking, unemployment, arrest, pay phone, thief, blonde woman, slum, suicide, attorney, punched in the face, stuttering, fedora, pistol, jury, district attorney, chess, secretary, bilingual

Short Review

Nicholas Ray's direction stresses the realism of the script taken from Willard Motley's novel of the same title, and gives the film a hard, taut pace that compels complete attention.

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