Sickly Big Mac has planned a big score and paid top dollars to get a governor's pardon for his imprisoned compatriot Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart). Roy is released and drives to a Californian mountain fishing camp to join his crew, Red and Babe. Babe had picked up dance hall girl Marie (Ida Lupino). Louis Mendoza is the inside man at the hotel. Roy tries to kick out Marie but she convinces him to let her stay. Roy befriends crippled Velma (Joan Leslie) and her grandfather (Henry Travers) who are traveling to LA from their foreclosed farm.
This tries a little too hard to humanize Roy with the hard-scrabbled family. The character has grown out of his Mad Dog nickname. The action and the story could be harsher and grittier. Despite some softer round corners, Bogie is Bogie and he makes this good. He is magnetic and this solid crime drama becomes better.
This tries a little too hard to humanize Roy with the hard-scrabbled family. The character has grown out of his Mad Dog nickname. The action and the story could be harsher and grittier. Despite some softer round corners, Bogie is Bogie and he makes this good. He is magnetic and this solid crime drama becomes better.