Review:
A Classic! A fucking classic. I like to think that this movie is a 50's version of pulp fiction. Nothing like an old school gangsta movie to get you going. I love this movie cuz all the way through it your cheering for the bad guys. Now who doesn't like doing that!

Now I have to admit the acting is…well…50's acting. It's straight and to the point, but it works for the film not against it. The pace is fast and it never gets boring. That's one of the things that pisses me off about old films.

Sterling Hayden (Johnny Clay) plays the hard nosed ex-con perfectly. You get the feeling that this is a guy you don't fuck with. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he's the only actor who has been in more than one Kubrick film. Marie Windsor (Sherry Peatty) plays a real bitch wife. She's all over that role. Even I wanted to pop that two-timing whore in the face!

Special Features :
What? Didn you say no fucking features?….Dats what I thought. The four-page booklet as they call it, is a folded piece of paper. Full of information, yes, but it ain't no motherfucking booklet. The standard trailer was just that nothing too special about it. A sad display of features form MGM, who I have to say usually does it up. The boys dropped the ball this time but since they don't do it too often I won't razz them out.

Video:
The picture was in black and white, but it still looked great. There were a couple of scratches here and there. It's excusable though considering the age of the transfer.

Audio:
Nothing special here and honestly it didn't have to be. The film works just fine with mono sound and that's the way it was made.

"No, I don't think I'll have to kill her…just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all." - Johnny Clay

-Zorbs