Black Tuesday (1954) - hownos/Allaby viewing session

they had the budget for outside scenes

I've seen 5 films written by this same writer. He wrote Union Station (1950) and The Big Heat (1953).

i have seen those

i guess they followed them from the bank?

Probably.

"Just watch me."

he's really psycho in this one

Nah, he's a nice guy, just misunderstood.

sloane was russell johnson. didn't get a lot of face time

Good ending.

This was well written, fast paced, and with good performances. A nifty and effective film noir.

suicide by cop ending

it wasn't bad. reminded me of white heat with robinson playing a complete psycho james cagney

Better than going back to prison and waiting to be executed.

8/10 is my rating.

Another forgotten film noir with the great Edward G Robinson, one of the kings of the genre. Robinson is at his best playing a psycho on death row who manages to escape. When I say psycho, I mean Cody Jarrett from White Heat (1949) type psycho. The body count gets high. A a number of recognizable faces who went on to tv careers:

Peter Graves - Mission Impossible
Milburn Stone - Gunsmoke
Russell Johnson - Giligan's Island

Two big twists at the end. This is a solid film noir with all the ingredients you would expect. 7/10