96 minute running time so the perfect length … I liked this one, gets a coveted green-go rating … Jules Dassin from Middletown, CT … much better than Brute Force, no heavy-handed moralizing here, just a crime story from the Big City … Muldoon the old Irish L.T. … great shots of 1940s New Yawk City, esp. the closing scene with the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance (as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge) … John Farr liked this one too.