Life on the wrong side of the tracks in this remake of the French classic La Bete Humaine, filmed in 1938 by Jean Renoir. This version, with the locale switched to Oklahoma, was by Fritz Lang, a follow up to his classic The Big Heat. But the effect was more tepid than hot this time round. Glenn Ford stars as a railway engineer urged on by his mistress (Gloria Grahame) to murder her husband. Lang's moody, atmospheric black and white photography elevates the film to a higher class than the script really deserves.

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