And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Maybe the greatest Noir, period. Everyone gets killed, plenty of plot twists.
ReplyDeleteI watch it every time it comes out on TCM. It is one cool movie.
ReplyDeleteSaw it last month. Very good movie.
ReplyDeleteRobert Mitchum billed over Kirk Douglas?
ReplyDeleteThat's curious.