Directed by Joseph M. Newman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)
Edmond O'Brien uses the electrical skills he learned at the telephone company to improve communications at the local bookie complex. Before long he quits his job and muscles his way into running the joint. The national syndicate takes over, but he finds out they are taking more than the agreed cut. He hires a hit man to murder his main opposition, but the hit man ends up blackmailing him. So, he has to bump him off but now the police are on his trail. Gritty little noir that uses the Hoover Dam for a somewhat overblown ending.
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