"Truly exceptional! An all-male cast. Richard Basehart plays the psychotic killer mercilessly tracked down by police detectives. Taken (or so the studio claims) from actual police files, the film opens with the brutal murder of a policeman. Location shooting in the relentlessly realistic tradition of T-Men and Canon City is highlighted by the final shoot-out in the L.A. drainage tunnel system (featured later in Them). A gritty masterpiece!" (Erroll Morris for PFA's John Alton retrospective, 1975). Begun by Alfred Werker and completed by Anthony Mann, it has the creative stamp of the Mann-Alton collaboration.