Warner Bros.
Directed by Felix Feist
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
A convicted killer is released into society after serving his 18 years. He's immediately hounded by the local press and forced to go to NYC to seek privacy. One night he picks up a dance hall girl. He uses his release money to buy her expensive gifts. She shoots a man in self defense in her apartment, but he gets knocked out in the fight and she pins the murder on him. They go on the lam and start a new life picking lettuce in California. Someone recognizes them and turns them in to the police. It has elements of film noir, especially the femme fatale angle, but really is more of a matter-of-fact story of a man trying to adjust to life on the outside and the woman who falls in love with him.
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