I was also especially pleased to find Robert Young in the lead role, as the cool as a cucumber detective in this. He smokes his pipe, kinda looks down his nose at the perp, and then pulls out the evidence, generally to devastating effect. Having seen him mostly as either Marcus Welby, Sanka-man or Father Knows Best-I thought it was neat watching him play a very serious role in a convincing manner.
Robert Mitchum is alright, basically does an investigation and glowers and so forth. He's much better in this than he was in Racket-which was a rush job(and then some) that just didn't work. This one does.
Finally high marks to Robert Ryan(who was Also in the Racket). In that one, he over-acted. In this one, he plays against type as a racist violent man, and is positively scary. He was nominated for the Oscar that year and prob. shoulda won it. This was a good good actor.
***1/2 outta ****. Check it out.
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