Split Second (1953): the hownos/Allaby viewing session

arthur hunnicutt is about 43 in this movie but playing a ww1 veteran.

Yes, he often played old timers and frontiersman type of characters and usually had a beard.

Yes, he often played old timers and frontiersman type of characters and usually had a beard.

Interesting trivia: The escaped convict Bart Moore is played by Paul Kelly, who himself spent 25 months during the late 1920s in California's San Quentin State Prison. He was convicted of manslaughter for the beating death of actor Ray Raymond, the first husband of actress Dorothy Mackaye, who was having an affair with Kelly and would later marry him.

i was reading that as well

a film noir necessity: a small town doctor with good surgical skills

I have always really liked that passage from the Bible.

he didn't seem religious

Cool explosion.

Good ending.

I liked this. It was well written with fine performances and good dialogue. 7/10 is my rating.

a good mix of film noir and a nuclear explosion. good characters. mcnally was great as the heavy. sterling was underused. 7/10