Tight little heist-gone-wrong flick starring noir icon Charles McGraw and Hitch-Hiker baddie William Talman. It could use a little more zip and atmosphere, but it plays along nicely and manages to keep your interest engaged. You can see echoes of this film in later noirs. Pretty much the exact same heist plan is pulled off in Kansas City Confidential, and the ending is like the end of The Killing, except much grislier. Nothing too special here, nothing to complain about it either. Good times.

A fat-free heist that clocks in at 67 minutes. This solid little movie does a lot: somehow into its lean plot it manages to squeeze in a stylish, anonymity-obsessed villain (setting aside time for his paranoid habits), and even devotes quite a few minutes for a bit of racy on-stage dancing by Adele Jergens.