A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
Acting
Ricardo Cortez oozes reptilian menace as Goldie.
Direction
Garnett's pre-Code sleaze hits harder than 70 years of imitators.
Director
Tay Garnett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood (1930-1934) allowed explicit sexuality, amoral endings, and unpunished villains — all extinct until the 1960s.
Tay Garnett later directed THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE; this was his apprenticeship in fatal attraction.
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