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Date Viewed	Venue	Note
08.03.07	Home DVD	I watched this movie on the flight back from Tennessee, and man... whatta great minor noir. It's basically 2 movies... the first half sets up Richard Conte getting sent to jail, and the second half is him planning to get out. I say jail, but it's really a work farm where one prisoner is given a gun and told to make sure the others don't escape. Seriously... there's no guards or anything (at least not while they're on work detail). They call that guy the shooter. And generally, the shooter gets a pardon if he kills a prisoner trying to escape. Conte manages to become the shooter, and he enters a deal with an older prisoner (Sam Jaffe): Conte will pay Jaffe's poverty-striken wife and kids $25,000, and Jaffe agrees to try to escape sometime in the following 30 days. There's all these great, dark scenes with Jaffe and Conte facing off... two masters at work. I really love Conte's "The World Owes Me Everything" character that he plays in basically every movie I've seen him in. There's also a few light comedic touches, like the one old man in the courtroom scene who gives a running narration of what's going on to his hard-of-hearing old man buddy: "She said he did it on purpose." "Huh?" "He meant to do it." Worth tracking down.

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