Cinematheque: Anthony Mann’s Noirs

Ex-GI and trucker Steve Randall takes a job because it pays so well -- too well, in fact. Unwittingly roped into a stolen fur racket, Steve gets caught in the crossfire between the thieves and the police, and begins a desperate flight with his pregnant wife... a flight that is relentlessly tracked by the revenge-thirsty Walt, the brains behind the fur heist. Desperate, Anthony Mann maintained, was his first “real film.”