There's a major new drug smuggler in town, and it's Yul Brynner in his movie debut. It's up to several branches of the Treasury department to stop him, in the persons of Scott Brady and Richard Rober.
It's another of the crime dramas that Eagle-Lion produced on their way up from PRC to taking over United Artists, and it's a fairly good one. Modeled, at least in intent, on THE NAKED CITY, it offers itself as a semi-documentary, by way of voice-over narration by Chet Huntley. It's certainly competently directed by Laslo Benedek, even if the camerawork and dizzyingly final sequence of its predecessor is nowhere to be seen in its camerawork by George Diskant. Instead, it seems to fall into rote situations, with the point of view shifting between the feds and the bad guys.
Still, it shows ambitions, and as a straight crime drama, it does a good job.
It's another of the crime dramas that Eagle-Lion produced on their way up from PRC to taking over United Artists, and it's a fairly good one. Modeled, at least in intent, on THE NAKED CITY, it offers itself as a semi-documentary, by way of voice-over narration by Chet Huntley. It's certainly competently directed by Laslo Benedek, even if the camerawork and dizzyingly final sequence of its predecessor is nowhere to be seen in its camerawork by George Diskant. Instead, it seems to fall into rote situations, with the point of view shifting between the feds and the bad guys.
Still, it shows ambitions, and as a straight crime drama, it does a good job.