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An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.
Alan Hale Jr.
- Denny
- (as Alan Hale)
Stanley Adams
- Honor Farm Guard
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Bank Robber
- (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
- Mr. Freeman
- (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
- Mrs. Andrews
- (uncredited)
John Cliff
- Ed
- (uncredited)
Richard Collier
- Assistant District Attorney
- (uncredited)
Martha Crawford
- Doris Poole
- (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
- Judge
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBaseball player turned actor John Beradino appears as Mac. He would go on to star as Dr. Hardy on General Hospital (1963). Beradino played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns, the Cleveland Indians, and the Pittsburgh Pirates for 11 seasons from 1939 to 1952 (interrupted for WWII service).
- GoofsWhen Poole pulls the stolen Ford truck into the farmer's yard, crew members and lights are visible reflected in the side of the truck. As he moves away from the truck, the cameraman is seen moving along with him.
- Quotes
Detective Sam Wagner: Could've been worse, Poole.
Leon Poole: It was worse, remember? I remember.
Detective Chris Gillespie: Poole, we tried to explain.
Leon Poole: Someday, Wagner, I'm gonna settle with you for it. I'm certainly gonna settle with you for it.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Trapped Ashes (2006)
Featured review
Terrific, perverse unknown B noir
Although Andrew Sarris italicized it in the list of Boetticher's films in The American Cinema (meaning he recognized it as one of the more notable films on the list), I've never run across any critical comment on this film. Nevertheless, it's a real discovery-- imagine Cape Fear with Wally Cox in the Mitchum role and you get some idea. Corey (who usually played stiff bureaucrats and cops himself) gets the role of his life as a mild-mannered clerk turned crook who becomes unhinged and escapes with the plan to kill the cop who sent him up. What's creepy about him is that, like Norman Bates, he never even raises his voice-- and like Norman Bates, eventually he winds up in a dress (oh, it seems logical enough as a disguise, but it introduces an unmistakable air of sexual confusion and perversity into the violent climax that catapults the film into Fullerian ranks of psychosexual luridness). And if you want to know what Brian dePalma's been trying to do all these years with movies like Blow Out and Snake Eyes, just watch how effortlessly Boetticher plays out the climax over walkie-talkies (a sequence to rival Touch of Evil).
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- mgmax
- Oct 11, 1999
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Blutige Hände
- Filming locations
- W. Pico Blvd. and S. Roxbury Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA(opening shot of the movie shows the signs for these streets, location of the bank where Leon Poole worked, which was robbed by Poole's cohorts)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
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