An entertaining enough noir about a parole officer who's smitten with one of his clients and allows himself to be dragged into some criminal dealings because of her.
Oh, those dames, always causing trouble for your average red-blooded American male. Cornel Wilde is said male and Patricia Knight, not an actress well known to me, is his charge. The film has the opportunity to go to some really dark and gritty places, but it cops out and resolves everything with a happy and ridiculously rushed ending. Even Eddie Muller, who introduced the film on TCM, couldn't defend the film's wimpiness to go for the throat.
But ending aside, this is still a pretty good flick, directed by Douglas Sirk, who wasn't exactly the go-to person for film noir.
Grade: B.
Oh, those dames, always causing trouble for your average red-blooded American male. Cornel Wilde is said male and Patricia Knight, not an actress well known to me, is his charge. The film has the opportunity to go to some really dark and gritty places, but it cops out and resolves everything with a happy and ridiculously rushed ending. Even Eddie Muller, who introduced the film on TCM, couldn't defend the film's wimpiness to go for the throat.
But ending aside, this is still a pretty good flick, directed by Douglas Sirk, who wasn't exactly the go-to person for film noir.
Grade: B.