i watch this last night on tv ( hbo ) . i have to admit and that the tension in this movie be unsurpassed by most other fn era movie . i love the way chip would be all calm one moment and then violent the very next moment . it be classic . ahh yes . the dame and the villians and the cigar and thuggish cop . it have it all . this movie deliver all the good to me . i especially love the way they mix communism into the plot and very common for this era of movie . very dare also since blacklisting be popular in those day . i rate this movie one of the best i have see in the fn genre .