wife after a long day, aware that tomorrow will probably be just as busy. Cast Robert Mitchum as Captain Thomas McQuigg Lizabeth Scott as Irene Hayes Robert Ryan as Nick Scanlon William Talman as Officer Bob Johnson Ray Collins as District Attorney Mortimer X. Welsh Joyce MacKenzie as Mary McQuigg Robert Hutton as Dave Ames Virginia Huston as Lucy Johnson William Conrad as Detective Sergeant Turk Walter Sande as Precinct Sgt. Jim Delaney Les Tremayne as Harry Craig - Crime Commission chief investigator Don Porter as R.G. Connolly Walter Baldwin as Booking Sgt. Sullivan Brett King as Joe Scanlon Richard Karlan as Breeze Enright Tito Vuolo as Tony, Nick's Barber Milburn Stone as member of Craig's team (uncredited) Reception New York Times critic Bosley Crowther panned the film. He wrote, "In this consummation, however, the conflict of cop and crook is conspicuously unoriginal, considering the number of times that it has been contemplated on the screen since The Racket was first produced, and the staging of it, under the direction of John Cromwell, is dismally uninspired. Furthermore, the construction of the screen play by W. R. Burnett and William Wister Haines is so badly disordered toward the finish that it is almost impossible to perceive the intricacies of the planning by which the cop lures the crook to his doom. As a consequence, the collision of Mr. Mitchum and Mr. Ryan is a pretty dull one, in this instance marked mainly by exchanges of clichés, and the rest of the cast does little to add life to the activities." Variety magazine, on the other hand, gave the film a positive review, "This remake of Bartlett Cormack's old play has been handled to emphasize clearcut action and suspense and the casting is just right to stress the rough and ready toughness in the script ... Further masculine attention is gained through the strong work of William Talman as a rookie cop ... Development is enlivened with some solid thriller sequences, such as a rooftop fight between Mitchum and a gunman, careening autos and crashes, and gunplay between the forces of good and evil." Writing recently, critic Dennis Schwartz was disappointed with the film, writing, "... this film didn't have enough punch to be hard-hitting, as it softened all the things about widespread city corruption and made all the characters into one-dimensional types. All it had going were the action scenes and