Directed by Lloyd BaconMy rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)
Raft and Bogie are paroled from Sing Sing on the same day. Bogie intends to return to his gangster lifestyle, but Raft plans to go straight. The film is mainly interested in Raft and the way society treats the ex-con. He's fired from several low wage jobs, sometimes by management who doesn't trust him, sometimes because of the other workers who resent him and pick fights. He finally manages to hold down a job as a stock boy and over time rises to a position of responsibility. However, when the cops pick him up for no reason he gets fired again. He looks up his old pal Bogie, and soon joins his gang and goes on a bank robbery spree. Loaded with money he could never make holding down regular jobs, he gives most of it to his brother who owns a garage. The Production Code-imposed ending sees that a life of crime gets its just reward, but makes for a predictable denouement.
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