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Sep 08, 2016akirakato rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston, based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett. In a minor but key role, Marilyn Monroe plays a mistress for an aged lawyer. At the time Monroe was an unknown actress who was pictured but not mentioned on the posters. Sterling Hayden plays as a brazen hard-boiled hoodlum who just wants to go back home. Sam Jaffe does wonders as a cool-headed mastermind, James Whitmore appears taut as a small 'fixer' and John McIntire seems crisp as a chief of police. In 2008, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.