[DemforBush]

Good flick. It's perhaps not quite as edgy a film as it was in 1955, as the subject of drug addiction is no longer a taboo, but it's still a very good flick. Darren McGavin plays a good creep, and this is the first film where I've gotten to enjoy the antics of the legendary goofball Arnold Stang. 7.25/10

[DemforBush]

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The Stranger 7/10

Decision Before Dawn 7.5/10

The Woman in The Window 8/10

Plunder Road 6.75/10

The Hitchiker 7/10

The Big Heat 8.5/10

Stalag 17 8/10

The Killers 8/10

Kiss of Death 8/10

D.O.A. 7/10

Breaker Morant 8.5/10

Detour 7/10

The Flim-Flam Man 7/10

Stalingrad 7.75/10

Sleuth 8/10

Evil Roy Slade 7/10

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Men in War 6.75/10

Five Fingers/Operation Cicero 8/10

Escape From Sobibor 7.5/10

Better Off Dead 7/10

A Christmas Carol 8.25/10

The Earthling 7.25/10

The Hill 8/10

The DI 7/10

Ronald Reagan in Tennessee's Partner 7/10

Duel 7.5/10

Attack! 7.5/10

Scarlet Street 8/10

Kansas City Confidential 7/10

This is the Army! 7/10

M 8.25/10

Beat The Devil 6.5/10

Kanal 7.75/10

Nightmare Alley 7.75/10

And Then There Were None 7.5/10

Zulu 8.5/10

The Final Countdown 7/10

The Maltese Falcon 8/10

Casablanca 8/10

MST3K - The Final Sacrifice

Champion 7.5/10

Dunkirk 7/10

Incubus 6.75/10

3 Stooges Marathon

The Bicycle Thief 8/10

Double Indemnity 8.5/10

Jeremiah Johnson 7.5/10

House of Cards 8.75/10

[JoeProBono]

[Sans-Culotte]

I always liked Elmer Bernstein’s jazzy music score for this film.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Darren McGavin you say? He deserves an award!

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you!

[jobim]

Author of the book was Nelson Algren, a Chicagoan. I met him not long before he died at a talk, and he signed my book of his short stories: The Last Carousel. My dad went to DePaul, 1930s, and he always claimed Algren captured his world perfectly.

[LearsFool]

One of the best movies of all time, IMO!

[Kid Shelleen]

Great flick in many ways but most notable because of its terrifying vision of drug addiction.

[bruin66]

Great movie? No. Great, if not greatest, score. “High Noon”, a close second.