Filmed 10 years after the WB Gangster period, Cagney returned to a role he was trying to distance himself from. And what did he do? He made a film that tops all his gangster films of the 30s. No small feat! It's a entertaining action packed thriller. Don't be tricked into thinking it's a dank film noir. It's not. It's a crime film that nearly all others are compared. Watched a nice print on Filmstruck, but it's available in many formats.