
Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.... (Full plot summary below)
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Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.
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| New York TimesBosley CrowtherAppointment With Danger not only proves that crime does not pay but that it can be interesting to observe. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzRoutine hardboiled crime thriller about a postal heist and murder. |
| User ReviewRobert AWatchable but forgettable film Noir starring Alan Ladd. It's ok, but it's a bit paint by numbers, and also difficult to understand the language which is very gangster and sometimes muffled |
| User ReviewAlex B"You've been chasing hoodlums for so long you don't know how to treat ordinary people. Warm up, will ya!?" "Sure, I'll fall in love for ya." "I don't think you could, because you don't know what a love affair is." "It's what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam." "Let me tell you about you, Al. That badge and a few law books have turned you into a nut. You don't like anybody, you don't believe anybody, you don't trust anybody, you think everybody has a pitch." "Everybody has. You and I and that guy back there. We're all working for ourselves--a better job, a little more dough, a round of applause. One way or another everybody you meet is a pitch artist." A stiff/repressed/chaste (with the female lead an annoying nun rather than a femme fatale), midwestern film noir/police procedural/heist film, about the post office. It wants to appear to straddle good and evil, but there's no doubt it's on the side of "good". |
| User ReviewBill MStandard crime drama. Only watch if you are a fan of the late Alan Ladd, who was also known for his radio work as a newspaper reporter/detective in "Box 13". |
| User ReviewArt SRun-of-the-mill noir that sees Alan Ladd as a postal inspector (a.k.a cop) who is brought in to solve a colleague's murder but ends up stumbling onto a gang planning a heist (targeting a mail truck, of course). Ladd plays a tough guy who no one likes but his dealings with the key witness, a nun (Phyllis Calvert), soften him up a bit. Nevertheless, he's hard as nails when it comes to playing the dirty cop in order to get in thick with the gang led by Paul Stewart. Jack Webb and Harry Morgan (later of Dragnet) are on hand as a couple of not-so-bright hoodlums. The cinematography by John F. Seitz (who also shot Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, and The Lost Weekend) is better-than-average with some stark night shooting. Certainly not the place to start with film noir, but not bad. |
| User ReviewPatryk CAn average noir film with a certain amount of suspense. It includes some interesting on location footage, like that of the Gary Indiana train station in its golden age. It is now an abandoned ruin visible out the window of the Detroit to Chicago Amtrak line. |
| User ReviewVJ BLadd busts a mail robbery in the most complicated manner imaginable. Marred by subplot involving a nun. Nuns have no place in cinema because they are boring and make me reach for the remote immediately. |