Dir: Clifford Odets | Cast: Rita Haworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young | US drama 1959
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
Backed by solid production values in the form of photography by James Wong Howe and music by Elmer Bernstein. The second of two features directed by Clifford Odets was also the third of three films released during the late fifties in which a glamorous movie star dressed down to play a woman implicated in a capital crime.
Rita Hayworth provides a good account of herself as the woman in the dock. In supporting roles an actress called Katherine Squire is notably good as Hayworth’s mother, as is Sandford Meisner as the supercilious prosecuting council; while the single biggest surprise has to be a white-haired Hugh Griffith as the judge.
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