I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF THIS FILM, ALL RIGHT BELONG TO UNITED ARTISTS.
The uptight and dumb smalltime thief Nick Robey and his partner and only friend Al Molin robber US$ 10,000.00 from a man, but the heist goes wrong. Al Molin is killed by a policeman and Nick shots him deadly in the spine. He hides out in a public swimming pool and meets the lonely spinster Peggy Dobbs in the water. Nick uses Peggy to lie low and leave the plunge. He offers a ride in a taxi to her and she invites him to enter in her apartment, where she introduces her family to him. When Nick discovers that he killed the cop, he decides to use Peggy's apartment as hideout to wait the police manhunt cool down, forcing the family to lodge him. When Nick finds that Peggy loves him, he invites her to leave the town with him and asks her to buy a used runaway car. However, the paranoid Nick cannot trust anybody and believes Peggy has betrayed him.
Great bang of an opening with Waxman's heart pounding theme. Motherly love and a few," scram, blow" and a slap. Continues with the big score set up in all of one minute and the movie is off and running. I like Garfield better when he is not cringing and weak. I guess I just like my leading men in control and tough. Garfield is more scared than tough so far, but I can't wait to see what the rest of the movie holds.
mvies77 1 month ago
@JohnnyTheExFish
The "Big Three" at Warners. Steiner, Korngold and Waxman. Their scores alone are worth listening to, although most of the movies are worth watching, also.
grabit1 4 months ago
@gallantrycross
It's hard to pick his best performance, because the most he might be accused of is having sometimes been miscast, like most actors in the studio system sometimes were.
I'll give the critics JUAREZ. Otherwise, he was simply a genius, and Warner Brothers never found out about it.
grabit1 4 months ago
The ensemble acting in this film is superb. This is probably John Garfield's best performance, although
"Postman" with Lana Turner is my favorite film of his.
gallantrycross 5 months ago
What an opening! All underpinned by the urgency of Franz Waxman's score
JohnnyTheExFish 6 months ago
Thank You!
2sday55 11 months ago
Great film... man your channel rules
busessuck1 1 year ago