VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

classicsoncall I had a similar reaction to this picture that I had with 1955's "The Desperate Hours", which also had a family held hostage at gunpoint. In that one, Bogey did the honors as the hair trigger criminal, but he had a couple of accomplices. John Garfield works alone here as something of a dimwit thug who does the wrong thing at the wrong time too often before getting caught up in his own incompetence. Which makes his remark in my summary line to Peg Dobbs (Shelly Winters) all the more comical. OR, it would make Peg pretty dumb if you extend the argument.But the more apt comparison to the later film is how the hostages were left unattended so often and for so long, thereby allowing them to take advantage and make a break for the police. Which Ma Dobbs (Selena Royle) eventually does, what alternative did she have really? That'll teach Nick Robey (Garfield) to force feed a turkey dinner at gunpoint.You could see how conflicted and out of his element Robey was in that scene when Mrs. Dobbs hurt herself on the sewing machine. He came across as a compassionate guy offering solace and comfort to an injured mother, something that wasn't reciprocated by his own Mom (Gladys George) when Robey was down and out. She treated him like a loser all the way, but then again, he didn't need much help in that department.Well, old timers like myself will get a nostalgic kick out of a couple items presented in the story. Somehow that twelve mile round trip on a boat at the Rainbow Pier looked like a real bargain at twelve cents a ride. But the better one was when Pop Dobbs (Wallace Ford) opened the apartment door for the morning newspaper. If you're under fifty years old, you might be wondering what that quart of milk was doing there.

pinoyhapa My ultimate wish is that this film be released on DVD. If not for anything but a tribute to the genius of John Garfield. Nick Robey (Garfield) and his cohort in crime botch a robbery. The title is from the fact that he has to keep ahead of being arrested by the police. He meets Shelley Winters is who that falls in love with him. But he uses her to plot his escape. The action is fast-paced and the ending is an enigma or a prophecy. John Garfield had all intentions of continuing his film career despite his being investigated by the House Unamerican Activities Committee in the 1950's which blacklisted many film actors, directors, and writers. In fact, because Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted, his screenplay for this film went uncredited. Sadly to say also, perhaps because of the HUAC, Garfield died a year after this film's release. But he left us with his greatest masterpiece.

ssthompsonIII While watching this movie, for the first time, I thought I saw John Wayne and Gary Crosby in two crowd scenes. Here they are;Wayne walking with a women in the scene where Garfield is about to get in line at the swimming pool. Gary Crosby,sitting on a bench in the men's locker room when Garfield is looking for the locker to change into his swimming trunks. You have to look fast,especially for John Wayne, he was the tallest man in the crowd scene.Any one else notice this? Any information about the filming locations would be helpful, was raised in L.A. and it appears many scenes are long gone, the 'plunge' was near Santa Monica or Venice,recall that Pacific Electric Red Cars used to take passengers there and the 'plunge' used sea-water. The apartment looked like the Bunker Hill area.Street car bells could be heard in the apartment scenes.

Michael_Elliott He Ran All the Way (1951) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Disappointing thriller about a thug (John Garfield) who kills a cop and then takes a family hostage until he can figure out what to do. Sadly, this film was Garland's last and this here is really the one thing that makes the film interesting. He delivers a good performance but it's no where near the best of his career or even near the top. Shelley Winters plays the girl who Garland meets and eventually takes hostage while Wallace Ford plays her father. The supporting performances are good but the screenplay doesn't allow any of the actors to do very much. We get countless speeches on why Garfield should do the right thing but we've heard this in countless movies so it comes off old and tired here.