MOVIE · 1953
Crime Wave
CrimeDramaThriller73 min
Gene Nelson is Steve Lacey, a reformed parolee whose attempt at an ordinary life is upended when a wounded former cellmate turns up at his door asking for shelter. The visit pulls Steve back toward the underworld he thought he'd left behind, especially when two more ex-cons try to force him into a bank job. Sterling Hayden and Phyllis Kirk join him in a tight city noir built around cramped apartments, police pressure, and a man whose past keeps arriving before he can shut the door.
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