Thank god for post-war noir

I love this damn movie. We are lucky to have people make art like this. Great all around.

Lee J.Cobb gave a splendid stand out performance in this excellent post-war film noir. Cobb who I've only also seen in On The Waterfront and 12 Angry Men, has become one of my favorite character actors. Jules Dassin is a hell of a director. I noticed the editing was flawed in a couple of spots, unlike Dassin's perfectly cut Night And The City and Rififi. That's my only qualm, and a very small one at that with this wonderful movie. Most great movies have at least one or two classic scenes, this film being no acception. The second to last scene is a a true blue classic scene. The other two Dassin movies I mentioned I like as well, with Rififi probably being my favorite. Though I give special points to Night And The City for casting Gene Tierney, an angel from heaven or somewhere grand.

If any comparison needs given, these Dassin movies stylistically remind me of John Huston's Asphalt Jumgle Fritz Lang's The Big Heat. Both great movies.

My library doesn't have alot of Dassin's movies. Gonna have to buy Brute Force. I can't wait to see it, never have.