Six years after Billy Wilder,Gordon makes his own "lost week-end".Both Cagney and Gig Young are convincing in their parts of barflies desperately trying to find a way out of this hell.
I think that the film noir side weakens the film:all that concerns the "singer" (a gangster's moll) and the gang gets in the way.
On the other hand,Boyd's relationship with his mother is really frightening and it is a pity that the part of this over possessive woman was so underwritten.Almost every line she says is revealing: "Boy's sleeping" "He may get cold,I'm going to cover him up well".Too bad Phyllis Thaxter and her mother-in-law have virtually no scene together either.
A good film anyway.
I think that the film noir side weakens the film:all that concerns the "singer" (a gangster's moll) and the gang gets in the way.
On the other hand,Boyd's relationship with his mother is really frightening and it is a pity that the part of this over possessive woman was so underwritten.Almost every line she says is revealing: "Boy's sleeping" "He may get cold,I'm going to cover him up well".Too bad Phyllis Thaxter and her mother-in-law have virtually no scene together either.
A good film anyway.