Sam Fuller's original script might have been called All That Heaven Should Allow. It's a noir that stumbled out of a dark alley and into the harsh light of melodrama, Douglas Sirk's beat. Griff (Cornel Wilde) is a tough parole officer until he's assigned the curvaceous ex-con Jenny (Patricia Knight), a bleached bombshell whose backstory is a “swill pile.” Griff sees past the swill to the swell beneath. “You've got to change your brand of men,” he demands, and goes about rebranding himself. When Griff and Jenny take it on the lam, Sirk takes the film back from Fuller's brush and makes it his own, complete with the fugitive lovers working the oil fields in a setting made for Rock and Dorothy. Originally titled The Lovers, this eccentric melo-noir rewards time off for bad behavior.