Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the film , writing , " Joseph L. Mankiewicz stylishly helms the dark screenplay by Philip Yordan of Jerome Weidman 's novel '' I 'll Never Go There Any More '' ... It 's a bitter psychological family drama that focuses on hatred as the family 's driving force instead of love . Max is the ambivalent hero , the only one in the film who is a true film noir character , who is punished for being loyal to his father yet is someone who has rejected the ways of the old-country and its traditionalism for the ethics of the New World . Superb performances by Conte , Robinson , and Adler lift the ordinary dramatics into loftier territory . " The film was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival and Edward G. Robinson won the prize for Best Actor
1949 Cannes Film Festival
1949 Cannes Film Festival
House of Strangers