Edward Dmytryk's lean noir tracks a woman-hating San Francisco killer and the police trying to stop him. Sympathetic yet tense, with Arthur Franz haunting, it is an early, sober look at psychopathy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (4,585 votes)
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