A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to ha... Read allA tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart.A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart.
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- TriviaThe Burbank "mobile home park" seen early in this film was later used as a location for the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz vehicle The Long, Long Trailer (1954).
- GoofsAfter bandages are removed from her eyes following ocular surgery performed several weeks earlier, Beth is still wearing perfect eye make-up.
- Quotes
Beth Austin: I can answer all your questions, now.
Dr. Ben Halleck: You already have. There was only one answer to every question. Yes, I know why you came back, why you didn't stop to count the cost.
Beth Austin: But I did count it, I want to pay it.
Dr. Ben Halleck: Then remember this, Beth. Remember the day when we took a detour and it led us home? It always will.
Beth Austin: I'll remember. And the prison woman who held your hand with all of her strength because she needed your strength.
[Camera pans down to see them holding hands]
- ConnectionsFeatured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
There are some things to like about it however. David Brian is another one of Feist's single-mindedly brutal thugs to rival Lawrence Tierney in the director's earlier "The Devil Thumbs A Ride" and Charles McGraw in "The Threat" for pure undiluted nastiness. His obsessive, murderous, almost infant-like attachment to Crawford is rather disturbing. Along with brother Philip Carey (a brooding, troubling presence throughout) the Jackson brothers certainly make for a memorable pair of crooks.
Also liked the moments just after Crawford undergoes the risky operation to save her eyesight. Feist creates a rather lush feeling of disorientation here and at one point Crawford, whose eyes have been bandaged for some time, makes a perceptive comment to the effect that drifting in the dark for so long has its advantages, that one feels completely cut off from reality and all its concerns.
There's a fresh, exciting scene involving a liquor bottle ill-advisedly thrown through a speeding camper's window and the highway patrol cop it almost strikes (Feist seems to like images of roads and highways just as much as David Lynch) and Brian's fanatic last stand, symbolically taking place in a hospital operating room where Morgan is presumably performing surgery on someone to help them ... see better.
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1