A cheapie BIG HEAT knockoff, but it's a tasty little morsel. Stevens gives a great performance, cold and intense, and leads a mighty fine cast. The characters are so engaging that the deaths are tangibly felt by the viewer. Pretty much everyone in this movie is fun to watch. The film has a terrific rough-and-tumble attitude, with biting dialogue, dark morality, smoky jazz in nightclubs and cheap dives, and lots of fist fights. Maybe not one of the greats, but it packs a good noir punch.

Decent late noir with the novelty of being set and shot in pre-statehood Alaska. Some surprisingly nice performances as well. The story is nothing original or thought-provoking, and at times gets a little too sentimental for my liking, but the whole production is really quite competent for such a minor entry in the canon.