OK, everyone seems to think widmark is the cat's meow in this one. well, he is the standout, but he is just doing what widmark does, and he does it better in other,better films. there isn't a lot more to say about this one. it is not noir. yeah, it gets dark and gives you the shadows now and then, but it just ain't noir. the film was either constrained by the censors to explain, over and over, why this picture needed making for 'public education' - thus the incessant monotone, droning voice-over, or it was simply made as overt propaganda. either way it is simply a docu-style film about cops getting the bad guys. nothing new and exciting here. for its time it might have been something, but that time has come and gone and the film is pretty flat.
Review of The Street with No Name
