Lupino coscripted and costarred in this minor noir classic, one of the least known and least shown of her films produced at The Filmmakers. It follows two police detectives who fall to the temptation of storing away some of the stolen money they uncover. These rogue cops may be seen as part of director Don Siegel's line-up of antiheroes. But Lupino the auteur steals the show: the fact that the film is in a melodramatic mode of noir, emphasizing the workaday environment that produces a crime, and a pervasive mood of passivity with its resultant pessimism, would seem to belong more to Lupino's sociological vision than to the action-driven Siegel. As in all of her productions, fine location photography gives the film a rough, honest look. (There's another auteur hiding in the shadows: Sam Peckinpah worked as an assistant to Siegel.) -Tom Kemper