The Horatio Alger parable gets the movie noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O'Brien as a whip-smart telephone service technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gaming empire in Southern California till sidetracked by an inconveniently wed Joanne Dru as well as his own greed. Ripped from the headings of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is loaded with area sequences fired in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs consisting of the famous Doll Residence watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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The Horatio Alger parable gets the movie noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O'Brien as a whip-smart telephone service technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gaming empire in Southern California till sidetracked by an inconveniently wed Joanne Dru as well as his own greed. Ripped from the headings of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is loaded with area sequences fired in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs consisting of the famous Doll Residence watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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