After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Direction
Lang's camera despises every room it enters.
Acting
Gloria Grahame's scarred performance steals everything.
Cinematography
Black-and-white so sharp it'll cut you.
Director
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford
Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria Grahame
Debby Marsh
Jocelyn Brando
Katie Bannion
Alexander Scourby
Mike Lagana
Lee Marvin
Vince Stone
Jeanette Nolan
Bertha Duncan
Peter Whitney
Tierney
Willis Bouchey
Lt. Ted Wilks
Robert Burton
Det. Gus Burke
Adam Williams
Larry Gordon
Howard Wendell
Police Commissioner Higgins
Chris Alcaide
George Rose
Michael Granger
Hugo
Dorothy Green
Lucy Chapman
Carolyn Jones
Doris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The coffee-throwing scene was improvised when Lee Marvin actually burned his hand and kept rolling.
Lang fled Nazi Germany; this film's suffocating corruption mirrors his view of American capitalism's rot.
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