The title of the picture is short and to the point, the film is appropriately crafted for viewers with a disciplined attention span who just want to get it over with. Lawrence Tierney is all menace here as Vincent Lubeck, freed on parole after a five year stretch against the better judgment of a warden and parole board who've allowed themselves to be influenced by the convincing sob story of a mother who's duty it is to stand up for her son. We'll see how this relationship turns out later, but for now, real life brother Ed Tierney rides to the rescue with a job offer at his filling station with the kind of upward mobility that comes with being located across the street from a bank. I had a sense that pumping gas wasn't Vince's forte when he doused a customer's car with a couple of gallons when he complained about the service. It would have been a worse career move had he been a smoker.Vince does his level best to convince us that he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever by chewing up and spitting out his brother's girlfriend, leading her to suicide following a rape resulting in pregnancy. As an equal opportunity womanizer, he moves in on a bank secretary (Marjorie Riordan) to firm up plans for the big heist. I always get a kick out of these era films where the crime in progress is the subject of newspaper headlines in real time, a feat that took at least another half century to realize with the advent of the internet.You can do better than "The Hoodlum" if masterful crime drama is your thing, but for pure sleaze factor, it doesn't get much better than this. Had the elder Tierney cracked a smile even once I would have been disappointed. This one is pure hard boiled and as gritty as they come, and even though it may not stand up to serious scrutiny, how bad can a film be when it winds up at the city dump.

A particularly nasty slice of thick ear. Looks like the movie's a vehicle for Tierney's brand of deadpan tough guy. And that's the way he plays it except for a Cagney-like soft spot for his ma. Then too, Vincent's (Tierney) seduction technique is right out of Caveman 101, leaving poor sweet Rosa (Roberts) devastated and with child. No wonder his brother (the other Tierney) wishes him on a garbage heap with the other trash. Where Vincent goes, ruin is bound to follow.This is a poverty row production, to say the least. The exterior sets are pure 99-cent store, especially the bank's tacky cross street. The robbery scene, which should be the centerpiece, fails to deliver the expected tension. I know cult director Nosseck is capable of better, but was likely cramped by a shoestring budget.Actually, it's the acting that comes across best. I particularly like Riordan's savvy, sexy Eileen. As Vincent's foil she's tough enough to be convincing. Older actress Golm also manages well the difficult role of the long-suffering mother.Is the movie noir. In my book, it is only in the loosest sense. The movie's more gangster than noir, especially when the lighting looks more cheap than artistic. Plus, there's nothing ambiguous about Vincent's life of crime. The narrative is more like an emotional buildup to the day of reckoning than it is about shades of gray. I just wish tough guy Tierney could have stayed sober and out of trouble long enough to have the career his talent merited, which is the main reason to catch this otherwise forgettable feature.

Vince is a career criminal who has been getting into trouble since he was a child. As played by granite faced Tierney, he is completely believable - he is a complete creep.When the film opens he has served 5 years when his mother pleads for his release so he can mend his ways - something he has no intention of doing. He resents having to work with his brother Joey, (real life brother Edward) earning an honest wage as a mechanic. He starts to gather some cronies around him and to plan an armoured car robbery.Joey's girl Maria thinks people should give him a chance. Unfortunately for Maria, she is raped by Vincent, finds she is pregnant and then kills herself when he refuses to marry her. Then he tries to make out that it is Joey's fault. The robbery goes ahead but the thieves fall out as Vince wants the major portion of money for himself.It is a very gritty, unrelenting drama especially as a showcase for Tierney. Only Lisa Golm, as the mother didn't ring true. I can't imagine a tough police board listening to a mother's pleas and releasing a criminal that obviously can't be rehabilitated.

This is typical but quite entertaining B movie fare. Well, not completely typical because the main character of such fare is generally more sympathetic than Lawrence Tierney is here. He's a guy you love to hate as he gets paroled thanks to his sweet and loving mother and then proceeds to be a total heel, raping and impregnating his sister-in-law, robbing a bank and just an overall not-nice guy. He doesn't even evoke sympathy at his dying mother's bedside and that's one of the perverse charms of the film. The ending in a dump is quite satisfying and prompts a feeling of good riddance to bad rubbish. This is a typically short little B film, cheaply made, ludicrous at times, but fun to watch and one which will be appreciated by fans of 40's and 50's 2nd features.