A primitive, absorbing, meat-and-potatoes-make that spaghetti-and-meatballs-gangster movie from 1957.

...it's the Catholic sense of doom pervading the film's atmosphere that makes it so distinctively Karlson's.

Harrowing gangster thriller shows high cost of blindly trusting authority.

Conte's strong physical presence being challenged by outside dark forces gives the film its noir look.