Harry figures out that his partner is involved and pleads with him to turn himself into the police. Cornered, Joe tries to flee to Mexico with Diane, but is tracked down and shot. He dies in Diane's arms. Cast Charles McGraw as Joe Peters Joan Dixon as Diane Lowell Gilmore as Kendall Webb Louis Jean Heydt as Harry Miller Milburn Stone as Egan Reception Critical response Hans J. Wollstein, writing for Allmovie, calls the film a "low-budget but highly engrossing film noir". Dennis Schwartz, at Ozus' World Movie Reviews writes "In the end everything was done in such a flat manner, that it was hard to care that straight-shooter McGraw lost his integrity and life for an icy broad who ironically would have loved him the way he was." According to film critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, the screenwriters took a hard-boiled mystery plot and combined it with "an aura of middle-class malaise and pervasive corruption to provide a motivation for Peters' alienation and fall." The noir notion of entrapment is illustrated by the staging of Peters' death in the semi-dry Los Angeles river bed, and it is one of the early scenes of a car chase filmed there. References External links 1951 films 1951 crime drama films 1950s heist films American black-and-white films American crime drama films American heist films Film noir Films scored by Paul Sawtell 1950s English-language films Films directed by Harold Daniels 1950s American films