As a cops-and-robbers extravagance, it would be a good, if stubbornly routine, job. Its special distinction is that it pauses every few minutes for an illustrated lecture on the internal operations of the FBI.

This dreamscape of vice is the American cinematic paradise, a visual and aural carnival appropriate to the gang leader played by Richard Widmark in high psychotic gear.

Vivid, rousing crime film depicts its tough urban area as a paradise for men.

...engaging thanks to some expectedly hard-bitten dialogue and Widmark's charismatic, sinister performance.