35mm print courtesy of Warner Bros. Screenplay by Earl Felton and Gerald Drayson Adams. The ultimate B caper flick, terse, tidy, and tough-as-nails. The gruffest mug in noir, Charles McGraw, plays a relentless L.A. Robbery-Homicide dick matched against lizard-lidded heavy William Talman in the film noir equivalent of ‘King Kong vs. Godzilla.’ With sultry Adele Jergens as a duplicitous burlesque queen, strutting her stuff amidst a gaggle of no-good goons.