A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him!
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Dick PowellJohn Forbes
- Lizabeth ScottMona Stevens
- Jane WyattSue Forbes
- Raymond BurrMacDonald
- John LitelDistrict Attorney
- Byron BarrBill Smiley
- Jimmy HuntTommy Forbes
- Ann DoranMaggie
- Selmer JacksonEd Brawley
- Margaret WellsTerry
Crew
- André de TothDirector
- André de TothScreenplay
- Karl KambScreenplay
- William BowersScreenplay
- Jay DratlerNovel
- Harry J. WildDirector of Photography
- Louis ForbesOriginal Music Composer
- Walter ThompsonEditor
- Samuel BischoffProducer
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