Hugo Fregonese, the director of APACHE DRUMS, made two crime movies: this one and ONE WAY STREET. I don't consider MY SIX CONVICTS as a true crime film. This one is a true gangster flick, starring Edward G Robinson and Peter Graves; G Robinson who did not play in any gangster film since the thirties, except for KEY LARGO. In the fifties he will be a gangster again in HELL ON FRISCO BAY. Here, he shows that he had lost nothing of his ability to play a hoodlum. It is a rough crime drama, tough, well paced, where Fregonese shows the same skills as he showed in westerns. Such a shame that this director did not make more crime movies of this kind. Robinson, I repeat, steals the whole show bt Graves is not bad either, in front of the "master".
Review of Black Tuesday
