This one has it all. Once MGM gave the go-ahead for a sub-department to produce low-budget Film-Noir's they got it right. The Movie is a textbook example of Noir and all its trappings. It is a seedy, violent, psychological study intermixed with emerging Media and social engineering.
Aside from the now-familiar plot, this is a 1950's icon of technology and slowly entering post-war angst about society's Mental Health responsibility and criminal sentencing. The scenes are concise and not too heavy on vitriol. It all seems remarkably believable. Especially the usually ineffective Marshall Thompson as a man without a conscience and is completely fixated internally.
The shots of inside the Media truck and the big-screen TV are infiltrations of a yet to be discovered, mammoth intrusion of the Fourth Estate. To add more authenticity there is the uneasy graphic violence capped by an ending of bullet holes and blood that in 1950 was unheard of.
This is one of the most unheralded of the Film-Noirs and will likely gain reputation upon modern reflection and is a Diamond of a discovery.
Aside from the now-familiar plot, this is a 1950's icon of technology and slowly entering post-war angst about society's Mental Health responsibility and criminal sentencing. The scenes are concise and not too heavy on vitriol. It all seems remarkably believable. Especially the usually ineffective Marshall Thompson as a man without a conscience and is completely fixated internally.
The shots of inside the Media truck and the big-screen TV are infiltrations of a yet to be discovered, mammoth intrusion of the Fourth Estate. To add more authenticity there is the uneasy graphic violence capped by an ending of bullet holes and blood that in 1950 was unheard of.
This is one of the most unheralded of the Film-Noirs and will likely gain reputation upon modern reflection and is a Diamond of a discovery.