This is a noir classic. Dick Powell fully embraces his hard boiled persona, as a guy wrongly accused of a stickup who is cleared after spending five years in jail and now he is seeking revenge in the form of compensation from the man who set him up.
The best part of the film are the supporting characters played by Richard Erdman and Jean Porter. Erdman's character, Delong, is a GI that lost his leg in the war and compensates…
A troubled priest seeks revenge on the painter that murdered his daughter.
This is a perfectly pedestrian thriller that should have been much better with Brad Dourif in the lead. The problem is that the screenplay gives way too much time to the murderer, and he isn’t very interesting. This isn’t 10 to Midnight where the murderer is cleverly toying with the police and goes to great lengths to cover up his murders.
And because so much time is given…
