Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and
noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.