Although only 85 minutes long, this is a rather dull, pedestrian bank robbery melodrama. Based on a novel by John Brophy, with which I am not familiar, it lacks the character development to make films of this type involving, as in, say, "The Asphalt Jungle (1950), "The Killing" (1956 or "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959). The documentation of "the job" is not enough to give us much of a stake in the outcome. This low budget picture, with a mediocre script, is where talented director John Guillermin began his career, before earning the trust to make some good big budget shows in the '60s and '70s. For a better example of his early work, I recommend "Thunderstorm" (1956).
