Mr. Taylor won't toughen up. He's too nice to be a melodramatic mobster, and he shows it. Lana Turner is similarly handicapped: Metro has swathed her best assets in a toga, swears that she shall become an actress, or else.

Mervyn LeRoy's picture is more a melodrama than a crime-gangster due to star Robert Taylor and the studio behind it (MGM), but it's worth seeing for Van Heflin's Oscar performance as the cynical alcoholic given to philosophical observations.

A well-entertaining piece of film noir, which never misses its rhythm of consistency in its plot of gambling, blackmail and murder. [Full review in Spanish]

Nothing can save this syrupy crime melodrama from its eagerness to please as a romantic sudser.