A superb early variation on a Bonnie and Clyde theme, this consolidated German director Fritz Lang's Hollywood career following his shattering debut with Fury. The feeling of the inevitability of doom was never more poignantly captured than in the story of Henry Fonda's ex-convict trying fruitlessly to keep on the straight and narrow. The evocative black and white photography is by Leon Shamroy, later to become master of the colour camera. Especially memorable here is a masterly shot of a rain-drenched street in front of a bank, where pedestrians scurry by beneath a canopy of black umbrellas.


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