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Slant Magazine says "Jules Dassin’s 1949 melodrama about long-haul truckers —the director’s final (and finest) film made in America before the House Un-American Committee exiled him to Europe— is ... a bleak portrait of post-WWII despair, corrupt capitalism, and idealistic disillusionment." The New York Times review from the time calls it "One of Best Melodramas of the Year". DVD Talk says it "bares some honest truths about making a living at the lower end of the entrepreneurial scale. Firebrand writer A.I. Bezzerides all but indicts the American system of business".
Rotten Tomatoes has a critics rating of 100%.
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Hmm, the more things change, the more things stay the same.
ReplyDeleteLife is hard, and the little guy gets the shaft. Yep, same ol', same ol' :(
DeleteSounds a bit like what we are going through right now. It never fails. We fail to learn from our mistakes. I'll try to watch this in December when I have more time on my hands.
ReplyDeleteYes, depressing, isn't it. Once December gets here I'll be focusing on Christmas movies :)
DeleteThis movie sounds good, and it sounds like it describes the current economic situation for many of us. History repeats itself.
ReplyDeleteI added the links to it to my blog. I also rearranged my movies list, so that they go by genre, although most of them fall under one category of crime / film-noir / mystery, since that was most of the movies I had links to. If you notice anything on there that seems like I miscategorized it, please let me know. Thanks. (I still need to watch that sci-fi movie that you helped me figure out the title to. UFO: Target Earth (1974))
It can be so hard to categorize films, and I'm not a stickler. Sometimes I'll put a film in more than one genre ;)
DeleteLooks rather depressing, but very intriguing. Will watch it if I get time. Enjoy your Sunday, Valerie
ReplyDeleteI think film noir is depressing by definition. Well, almost ;) Hard lives made harder by foolish decisions or criminal intent.
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