A strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.
At the time a groudbreaking an realistic depiction of addiction the movie still fascinates due to excellent performances, professional direction and great b/w photography.
Halliwell*: "Sensational on its first release, with its cold turkey scenes, this now seems a muddled impressionist melodrama with echoes of the silent German cinema and much over-acting and miscasting all round. But Sinatra is good; and it is different..."
Maltin***: "...Sinatra's performance is still provocative, especially in the actor's gets-the-shakes withdrawal scene. Otherwise, the film (which appears to have been shot on the cheap) has lost some, though hardly all, of its power."
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