George Montgomery plays the cop who thinks he will have time to learn his job, while his predecessor knows he is too late for it already. He has to grapple with a nasty web of villainy which gradually grows more ominous and threatens to engulf him. Nehemiah Persoff plays a role fit for Edward G. Robinson as the boss of the street selling liquor to minors and delivering young beautiful girls to his bosses downtown for further treatment. Naturally he and the young police officer develop a conflict constantly growing more serious, until guns start to circulate between hands. When one of the delinquents enter a garage smiling with a lovely girl and he comes out alone with the smile gone the alarm is definite. There are two lovely young girls going missing here, one by accidental suicide while being drunk, and the other just disappearing, while there is another death involved, a real suicide, a young man seemingly of unlucky love, but the spider in the web is undeniable. It's a great thriller on a small scale, gradually building up to shocking climaxes, well written, well acted, with terrific music, so it certainly deserves attention.
Review of Street of Sinners
