The Horatio Alger parable gets the movie noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O'Brien as a whip-smart telephone professional that moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gaming realm in Southern The golden state up until sidetracked by an inconveniently wed Joanne Dru and his very own greed. Torn from the headings of the 1950 Kevaufer The Mob Hearings, this fast-moving photo is filled with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam as well as Hand Springs consisting of the well-known Doll Residence watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!