After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
Direction
Powell's LA locations turn mundane into menacing.
Acting
William Conrad's sweaty, desperate bookie steals every scene.
Cinematography
Trailer park noir — poverty never looked so beautifully doomed.
Director
Robert Parrish
Dick Powell
Rocky Mulloy
Rhonda Fleming
Nancy Morgan
Richard Erdman
Delong
William Conrad
Louie Castro
Regis Toomey
Gus Cobb
Jean Porter
Darlene LaVonne
Joan Banks
Alice Fletcher
Jay Adler
Williams
Renny McEvoy
Taxi Driver
Lou Lubin
Hank
Gloria Saunders
Cigarette Clerk
Kathleen Freeman
Cigarette Clerk #2 (uncredited)
David McMahon
Trailer Park Officer (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just three weeks on a shoestring budget, with Powell stepping in when original director Robert Parrish was briefly fired — then rehired as co-director.
One of the last true B-noirs made as studios abandoned the genre; its trailer-park setting deliberately inverts the usual urban glamour.
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