98 minute running time, so the perfect length … prison pic … Burt Lancaster plays the big handsome dummy … I wonder if Dassin was gay because there are a lot of half naked men in this … again, heavy-handed moralizing accompanied by the Miklós Rózsa hit-you-with-a-club score … lot of neat prison scenes though, esp. the attempted prison break at the end, but the social justice aspect rankled .. John Farr recommendation … I’m glad that I saw it but I can’t recommend it, not a top one-percent-er.

Munsey knows his job, and he does his job.