... , put them together and make it work. The movie wouldn't have worked the same without a good director and that was Henry Hathaway. He had done semi-documentary films before with two of his previous films: The House on 92nd Street and 13 Rue Madeleine. A reviewer said, "Though those were good this one tops them in realism, suspense and dramatic interest." (Variety) So ... to believe that people did want to see something different. Both the social disturbance of the World War II and the antisocial aggressiveness of American gangsterism in the decade that followed it created a class of char...

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