there nothing particularly original about this story of corrupt union on one side and the chief attorney on the other . the stark but unimaginative lighting and photography stem from the fag out noir cycle . the story could easily have be out of a warner brother drawer with george raft in the lead . the performance be routine and the direction flat and and even the set dress perfunctory . ( an alley be show by a single plaster wall of simulated brick . it have one poster on it . the poster say and post no bill . ) we be introduce to the story and some of the character by a portentous narrator who inform u that and while most union work hard and honestly to advance the cause of their member and a few be corrupt . but we do not really get to know much about the union or how they operate and although i suppose they be fair game after the success of on the waterfront a few year earlier . here theyre just a peg to hang the tale on . the real ring leader be a disbarred lawyer who run thing through three or four thug . the district attorney ( or whatever he be ) find out and like dana andrew do in boomerang and that the wrong man ( dick foran ) be charge with a murder and he spend the rest of the film almost alone and dig up evidence of foran innocence . he get into fist fight and shoot out like any inexpensive movie private eye . brian keith be the d. a. he show some insinuate display of talent elsewhere and but here he spend most of the time speak quietly and star at the floor . elisha cook and jr. and be a likable rummy but can not do a good drunk . beverley garland be okay but be undermine by the direction and which have her gawking in a night club when she should be furtive . the remainder of the cast would be suitable for a tv series . and nobody be help by the writing . when a b girl be about to be ship by the union mob to the filippines and someone advise her that she only have to learn a few word of spanish . i only know one word and she say and si . yes . the writer have not trust the audience to know that si in spanish mean yes . the plot be clumsy and have hole in it . keith visit a witness in her flat over a night club . he enter the door and have a gun shove in his back by a yegg and but he outwit the heavy and knock him out . then the order someone to call the police . the rest of the scene and play out at some length in the night club downstairs and forgets all about the police and they never show up and nor be they expect by anyone . it nothing to be ashamed of and and some people might enjoy it and but there be similar stuff and good do and elsewhere .