Yes, we have a quality director. we do not have a great script and the support cast tries to help Van Heflin as much as possible. this story is just a whole lot weak. We have a mob story and a really dirty Lee Bowman. Heflin gets a run for his money and gets the girl in the end but this one is kind of predictable throughout. The girl he gets is a tattletale that keeps screwing up his investigation of the murders.
It is a script worthy of New York as we have rampant corruption, a protection racket, a radio guy exposing criminals while being one. Then he murders the Mayor and decides to become a politician. He is on the take just as much as one recent NY Politico who took $4 million dollars and then got let off by a court.
In this case, Heflin does stop Bowman and it is all to predictable at the end. There is less mystery here than in a Columbo episode. For the folks doing this, the film looks like the resources at MGM were stretched to thin. This film hurt Van Heflin's career I am sure.
It is a script worthy of New York as we have rampant corruption, a protection racket, a radio guy exposing criminals while being one. Then he murders the Mayor and decides to become a politician. He is on the take just as much as one recent NY Politico who took $4 million dollars and then got let off by a court.
In this case, Heflin does stop Bowman and it is all to predictable at the end. There is less mystery here than in a Columbo episode. For the folks doing this, the film looks like the resources at MGM were stretched to thin. This film hurt Van Heflin's career I am sure.