Melville's script churns along with the dutiful pace of a procedural...but he mostly seems interested in leading the audience through different places rather than supplying it with twists and turns for their own sake.

It is a film noir proposal whose appeal lies in the nocturnal panoramas of New York and in that contagious jazz music, but let's say it is one of the minor works of that great French director. [Full review in Spanish]

It might be Melville's weakest film.

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