Act of Violence

   .   '' ....... a rare, bleak absence of hope, of lives that cannot avoid being destroyed by consequences. It is an unusual picture of the slow stain of war ...... a tough, tight script done economically and effectively, doing it's damaging bit to present a real Americana, crowded with weak people and desperate compromises .....''

David Thomson
on Act of Violence

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Act of Violence
Fred Zinneman 1948