iloved this movie at the time . it seem to be about real life in the usa and there weren not many movie like it at that time . the lead while garfield and palmer be superb and the former a graduate of yiddish theatre and the latter a refugee from hitler europe . the melodramatic root be there from which the method later grow and with performer like brando and dean and poitier portray the wounded and suffer hero . ( do mel see this movie . } it also antecede marty the quintessential realist u. s. struggle migrant antihero movie where be you paddy chayevsky now that we need you . perhaps what be most striking be the hero who speak articulately use word of more than two syllable and reach it acme in streetcar name desire where brando character refers to the napoleonic code when he rag about his sister in law possession . be the subversive element the depiction of work class hero who could reason . and whose language have a poetic and almost shakespearian ring to it . no longer the inarticulate ( tarzanic brute ) but someone who could debate issue in the corridor of power represent a noble and sexually attractive savage .