Directed by Michael Curtiz
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Small-time boat captain John Garfield is having a hard time meeting his payments. When a charter to Mexico skips on his payment, he resorts to smuggling Chinese illegals across the border, but ends up killing a man in the botched deal. Back home in California, his wife takes odd jobs to help pay the bills while he looks for whatever work he can find. When his boat is threatened to be taken away again, he makes another shady deal for some fast cash. There is a romantic triangle involving Patricia Neal that sometimes takes over the plot and threatens to send it spiraling into melodrama, but a gritty, violent ending saves it.
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