Could almost be a precursor to Antonioni's Blow Up" as this film deals with a character circumstantially caught up in a brutal murder, whose bouts of uncontrolled anger and depression make him immediately suspect because he was the last person to see the girl alive. However, the film rather than zoning in on the crime, the victim, the investigation revolves around an unlikely budding relationship between a good Samaritan `guardian angel' who appears in the nick of time to alibi Bogart's character and may stay on to rehabilitate him, but then maybe not ...
This film gives us that rare view of the sometimes unglamorous business of making films and the individual tolls taken on some by the process. `Sunset Boulevard,' `The Player,' and `The Bad and the Beautiful' are three others among many excellent films on the subject.
Nicholas Ray remains one of films least revered Directors, yet he gave us some of the greatest, including `Rebel Without a Cause.'
This film gives us that rare view of the sometimes unglamorous business of making films and the individual tolls taken on some by the process. `Sunset Boulevard,' `The Player,' and `The Bad and the Beautiful' are three others among many excellent films on the subject.
Nicholas Ray remains one of films least revered Directors, yet he gave us some of the greatest, including `Rebel Without a Cause.'
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