pretty decent cast john garfield and wallace ford and selena royle but the film be no more than routine . garfield be a gangster who have just commit a payroll robbery . on the run and he take refuge in the working class apartment of a girl he just meet and shelley winter and and her family mom and pop and and kid brother . his identity be discover by the family and he quietly take them hostage and hold a snub nose . 38 on them . but what he go to do with them . how be he suppose to get away with the dragnet out for him . mom and pop be quietly repulse by him and but winter be attract and evidently spend the night with him and intend to accompany him on his getaway . he send her out to buy a car with part of the payroll money but come to believe she do not buy the car . instead and she betray him to the police . in the end and she force to shoot him at the doorway to the apartment house . he look surprised and say and you never have no love for me and stumble out the door and only to discover before he collapse that she would be true to her word . there sit the car . and garfield plop into the rain fill gutter . mostly throughout the movie they talk . then they talk more . then they go on talk more . garfield character emerge a embittered and cynical and self pitying and angry at those who have betray him all through his life and begin with his mother . but he not very smart . he allow the family to go out in order to show up at work or run errand and as long a he have one member at home for a hostage . while the rest be absent and in a burst of generosity and hope and he have an elaborate turkey dinner prepare . when they return and he beam with pride and tell them to dig in . but they remain silent and and mom produce some left over stew and which they proceed to spoon out without enthusiasm . i do not get it and say garfield . what the mattah with the toikey . ga head cahve it up . pop tell him solemnly and this be our dinner . the turkey be your dinner . garfield be dumbfound . huh . oh i get it . ( finally . ) it could easily have be a radio play and still popular at the time ( 1951 ) or a live tv show from playhouse 90. the budget be low and the story skeletal . usually they find room for remark about how this be go to be the hot day of the year or something . here the patter be limit to remark about the future and about good character and about responsibility and and they lead nowhere . i usually find john garfield performance likable another low middle class guy from new york but never magnetic . shelley winter usually get panned but i do not know why . she never bad and and often good than the script call for .