UW Cinematheque - Film Noir Double Features

In one of his most memorable roles, Lloyd Bridges plays a sharp-dressed, smooth-talking psychopath who talks sympathetic, unemployed family man Lovejoy into a string of small-time robberies. When they botch a kidnapping job, the two criminals find themselves hunted by the law and – more terrifyingly – by a bloodthirsty lynch mob. One of the best films of the 50s, Endfield’s enormously tense masterpiece is both film noir at its finest and a devastating critique of American society.