top notch performance from the lead single this out among gangster film of it day a a classic . howard have to lobby hard to keep bogart his stage role and for which we should be grateful . while the film still show it stage origin and it work for the claustrophobic atmosphere to keep location to a minimum . furthermore and it be stage drama like this and dead end which help the gangster film bounce back from the censorship that follow scarface and public enemy and little caesar . without film like this and we would have have no angel with dirty face or roar twenty . bogart arrival on scene be a killer and especially consider he be so well hype throughout all we have hear about be how dangerous duke mantee be . and the theme of the artist or sensitive type hole up with gangster be now legendary rework in film as diverse a performance and but perhaps best with bogart ( again ) a the good guy in key largo .