George Raft gives one of his most disconnected and wooden performances as a hustler whose father is killed. He goes to the police and asks if he can go undercover to help them deal with the rash of securities robberies that's hooked into the situation. Some one has been hitting the runners who carry large sums of cash and bearer bonds.
While Raft looked good, his acting was always a bit, ah, subtle for my taste, and leaving him under the supervision of programmer director James Flood can't have helped; Gregory Ratoff and Nancy Carroll seem disconcerted at all times. Flood had grown up in the same neighborhood as William Beaudine, and lived near him in California. He had a decent, if minor career as a movie director from 1921 through 1937, and was working as a director of the syndicated RACKET SQUAD shortly before his death at 57 in 1953.
While Raft looked good, his acting was always a bit, ah, subtle for my taste, and leaving him under the supervision of programmer director James Flood can't have helped; Gregory Ratoff and Nancy Carroll seem disconcerted at all times. Flood had grown up in the same neighborhood as William Beaudine, and lived near him in California. He had a decent, if minor career as a movie director from 1921 through 1937, and was working as a director of the syndicated RACKET SQUAD shortly before his death at 57 in 1953.