when edge of doom be first release and audience turn away from it with the coldest of shoulder . it be yank out of circulation so that a pair of bookend could be shoot and in which the story become a kind of parable tell by a wise old rector ( dana andrew ) to a young priest undergo a pastoral crisis . the filmmaker shouldn not have bother represent edge of doom remain one of the bleak and least comforting offering of the entire noir cycle ( no mean feat ) and and probably the most irreligious movie ever make in america . when farley granger devout but tubercular mother dy and it precipitate a rampage against everything that make up the prison of his life represent his ugly urban poverty while his penny pinch employer who offer promise rather than a raise while the church and which once refuse burial to his father and a suicide and and be now refuse his mother the big funeral he think he owe her while the smarmy and sanctimonious undertaker . long story short and he end up murder a crusty and hell and brimstone priest . the police nab him for a robbery he do not commit but end up with a different murder suspect . but compassionate pastor dana andrew ( now in flashback ) suspect the truth . there something almost endearingly old leave about the savagery of the indictment level against society big gun represent church and police and capitalism . the slum where granger live with his mother make ralph and alice kramden chauncey street dig in brooklyn look cozily invite ( adele jergens and a the slatternly wife of a neighbor and observes and smart people do not live here ) while outside and the nighttown be noir at it most exhilaratingly creepy . it easy to see why the public and on the cusp of the fabulous fifty and shun this movie and whose unprettiness be uncompromised . but it a succinct a sum up of the noir vision a anything in the canon .