Rhonda Fleming's Flaming Hair and Gorgeous Physique Dominate Her Scenes.
Arlene Dahl's Red-Hair Gets Dimmed by the Insanity and Full-Blown Nuttiness.
John Payne Scowls and Looks Constantly Frustrated.
At the Swirling Vortex that Surrounds as He goes Deeper and Deeper.
While Playing Both Ends of the Law Enforcement-Crime Angle.
First-Class Film-Noir Cinematographer John Alton has a Field-Day Transposing the Black & White Noir Sensibility to Technicolor.
It's one of those 50's Vibrant Wide-Screen Extravaganzas that Echo the Big is Better Mindset of the Celebratory, Decadent Display of the Eisenhower Era.
The Heavily Melodramatic Plot is Dense and Determined to be Complicated.
With Politics, Corruption, Crime-Gangs, Sexy Triangle (actually quadrangle) with Fleming Falling for Payne so Quick it may Cause Viewer Whip-Lash.
A Beautiful Piece of Cinema that Dazzles the Eye.
Not Usually Found in Crime Films, mostly in Epic Adventures.
So Noir Lovers and 1950's Pop-Culture Fans can Realize a Rare Treat from this Over-Baked, Sexy, Loony, Melodrama that has some Bite.
It Really is Quite the Sight.
Arlene Dahl's Red-Hair Gets Dimmed by the Insanity and Full-Blown Nuttiness.
John Payne Scowls and Looks Constantly Frustrated.
At the Swirling Vortex that Surrounds as He goes Deeper and Deeper.
While Playing Both Ends of the Law Enforcement-Crime Angle.
First-Class Film-Noir Cinematographer John Alton has a Field-Day Transposing the Black & White Noir Sensibility to Technicolor.
It's one of those 50's Vibrant Wide-Screen Extravaganzas that Echo the Big is Better Mindset of the Celebratory, Decadent Display of the Eisenhower Era.
The Heavily Melodramatic Plot is Dense and Determined to be Complicated.
With Politics, Corruption, Crime-Gangs, Sexy Triangle (actually quadrangle) with Fleming Falling for Payne so Quick it may Cause Viewer Whip-Lash.
A Beautiful Piece of Cinema that Dazzles the Eye.
Not Usually Found in Crime Films, mostly in Epic Adventures.
So Noir Lovers and 1950's Pop-Culture Fans can Realize a Rare Treat from this Over-Baked, Sexy, Loony, Melodrama that has some Bite.
It Really is Quite the Sight.