I saw this on the big screen during the sixties and particles of it stuck in the back of my mind. My all time favorite movie line: Marvin to Dickinson at the end as he is about to blow her away, "Lady, I don't have the time." The almost hynotic power of Marvin and Gulager when they are on screen, and Reagan as the CEO of this underworld plot. What a gritty, tough film. In his way, Siegel was the Curtiz of the 60s and 70s....every time churning out the best he could do with the material presented him.
Yet, there is about thirty minutes too much film here, and those extra minutes occur every time we flash back to race car driver Cassavetes, playing the Detour card to the hilt, except he leaves the narration to his friends. These scenes are like a Harpo solo in a Thirties comedy; they stop the film dead in its tracks. Thankfully friends run out of things to say, Marvin and Gulager find Reagan and Dickinson [did Curtis Hanson borrow the novel way of making her talk for LA Confidential?] and all accounts are settled.
Well worth watching.
Yet, there is about thirty minutes too much film here, and those extra minutes occur every time we flash back to race car driver Cassavetes, playing the Detour card to the hilt, except he leaves the narration to his friends. These scenes are like a Harpo solo in a Thirties comedy; they stop the film dead in its tracks. Thankfully friends run out of things to say, Marvin and Gulager find Reagan and Dickinson [did Curtis Hanson borrow the novel way of making her talk for LA Confidential?] and all accounts are settled.
Well worth watching.