A bit of a waste of a terrific title, although it captures the sour tone of the piece, with some remarkably graphic violence; including a punch-up in which Coop's opponent eye-wateringly falls not once, not twice, but THREE times into a fire.
Handsomely shot on location in CinemaScope, with Susan Hayward as the haughty heroine with her hands on her hips (described by sneering Richard Widmark as "like something hammered out of silver"), an exotic young Rita Moreno (still recently going strong in Spielberg's remake of 'West Side Story') and a score by the one and only Bernard Hermann.
Handsomely shot on location in CinemaScope, with Susan Hayward as the haughty heroine with her hands on her hips (described by sneering Richard Widmark as "like something hammered out of silver"), an exotic young Rita Moreno (still recently going strong in Spielberg's remake of 'West Side Story') and a score by the one and only Bernard Hermann.