Director:
Samuel FullerGuión:
Samuel FullerCámara:
Joseph MacDonaldMúsica:
Leigh HarlineReparto:
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey, Milburn Stone, Parley Baer, George E. Stone, Stuart Randall (más)Sinopsis(1)
Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score, but when he picks the purse of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters) he finds a haul bigger than he could imagine: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by both Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, Right versus Red, and passion against self preservation. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (2)
Directed at a relentless pace, this noir entertains above all in the way it deftly uses the role of the femme fatale to weave together the three sides of the male conflict, and in the way it violently brushes her off, making her a tool of the others for most of the runtime. I didn't like the romantic line at all, it looked very unrealistic, but on the other hand, I really liked Jean Peters's face and the dramatically escalated rhythm of the narrative, with the pocket-picking motif imaginatively incorporated and punctuated. The good old-school.
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A quite intense film noir, fairly fast-paced, that won't let you catch your breath and you will enjoy it until the end as a journey towards something quite dark. An interesting concept of how easily one can lose something important, and the consequences it can have on people who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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