6/10. Entertaining spy/crime thriller. Geroge Raft plays a crime boss hired by international spies to kidnap a nuclear scientist in Canada. Edward G. Robinson is the police inspector on his trail.
This was your average crime thriller from the 50's. The big bonus was the brief scenes with Edward G. Robinson and George Raft acting together. Up until that point it was just one or the other carrying the shot.
I was expecting this to be something more noirish along the lines of "Kiss Me Deadly", but it ended up being more like "G-men". Not a terribly bad thing, but I ended up giving it a lower score because of that. Really the only reason I gave this film above average score at all was because of Raft and Robinson.
Also of note is Peter van Eyck playing a variation on his evil Nazi, only this time we get the impression that he's an equally evil Commie.
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