Berry turned a standard ticking-clock melodrama into an action-movie meditation on manhood.

Less than a classic but more than a curio, John Garfield's last vehicle marks the disintegration of Hollywood's old left.

[John] Garfield’s final film (he died in 1952 at the age of 39) and a film noir made in the shadow of the communist witch-hunts...

...a terminally erratic endeavor that often feels long at just 77 minutes.