Warner Bros. | Release Date: May 13, 1950 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
88
Dealing tangentially with Las Vegas gambling's formative years (lots of matte work here of mountains in the desert), this crackling melodrama was inspired by Bugsy Siegel's relationship with Virginia Hill. [17 Jul 2005]
75
Charlotte ObserverTerry Lawson
A fairly standard story for the period, about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who ends up living the good life as a gangster's moll, but Crawford gives an astonishing performance. [17 Jun 2005, p.13H]
63
Chicago TribuneLouis R. Carlozo
Vincent Sherman's tangy 1950 gangster crime-romance. [19 Jun 2005, p.C3]
40
A rigid faced Joan Crawford, in a role that would make sense only if played by a ravishing young beauty. She's twice too old for it, and her acting is grim and masklike.