
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) and Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart) leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim (William Holden) to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again.... (Full plot summary below)
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Cliff Taylor (George Raft) and Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart) leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim (William Holden) to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzMorose, humorless and predictable prison story. |
| User ReviewJeffrey PIf you like "gangster" movies..Then you're going to love this one...George Raft and "Bogey"..together..A true classic..Njoy!!! |
| User ReviewGreg Wyear s/b 1939 not 1940 another WB prison drama |
| User ReviewWilliam WA fine work by Lloyd Bacon on the difficulty ex-convicts have on getting their lives back on track after incarceration, and the prejudices they have to encounter on a multitude of levels. Wonderful acting by George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Jane Bryan. Heartily recommended. |
| User ReviewAllan CTerrific Warner Bros crime story about ex-con, George Raft, getting out of jail and trying to go straight. His younger brother William Holden wants to get rich quick and Raft does his best to keep his little brother away from the influence of fellow ex-con, Humphrey Bogart, who has no plans of going straight. Raft and Bogart give strong performances and Holden is good as well, though it's rather odd to see him playing a golly-gosh-gee-whiz younger brother. I'm used to seeing him as much tougher, cynical and world weary characters like Sefton in "Stalag 17" or Shears in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" or Pike Bishop in "The Wild Bunch." Solid action, tough performances and a good script all add up to a classic Warner Bros crime flick. And I continue to be fascinated by the recent factoid that I learned that it was widely suspected that George Raft was a functional illiterate. |
| User ReviewMuhammad KInvisible Stripes (1940) Cliff Taylor (George Raft) and Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart) are getting released from Sing Sing. Cliff is out early on parol and Chuck did his full stint. On the train ride home, Cliff tells Chuck that he's going to go straight, but Chuck tells him that he's got invisible stripes and they'll always treat him like a crook outside. Despite all of his efforts to play by the rules, Cliff has trouble getting work with a prison record. He's even wrongly accused of breaking into a store. Worse, still, his younger brother, Tim (William Holden) is struggling too and is tempted to go for the easy money of a life of crime. So, you know that poor Cliff is going to reach out to his old buddy, Chuck and get some ill-gotten money for his family to live on. But, you know that crime, it doesn't pay. :-) Yeah, I know it's the same old gangster movie, but with the cast it comes off pretty good; well worth taking a look at. |
| User ReviewRussell GRaft is out of the clink and wants to go straight. Too bad he's friends with that bastard Humphry Bogart! Damn good preachy gangster film. |
| User Reviewcody fGood but not great. Typical Warner Brothers Gangster film about 2 guys being released from Sing Sing,one goes straight(Raft) and one goes back to crime(Bogart). One thing that makes this film enjoyable is the young William Holden as Raft's younger brother.Raft has seen the errors of his ways and is forced to go back to crime in a effort to keep his brother out. Another nice surprise is that Bogie isn't your typical bad guy. He is honorable, likable and he never does anything too despicable. This movie is worth seeing for the three heavies, they are great and it's 15 years before Bogie and Holden teamed up for Sabrina.Sadly this film is hampered by the Hayes Code crime does not pay rule. |
| User ReviewRichard DRaft gives a slightly more animated performance than usual, which means his face actually moves once or twice but his eyes are still empty and dead. But he is supported by a much better cast than he, an unbelievably young William Holden who does fine by his part but is still rather green. Flora Robson and Jane Bryan have thankless parts as the long suffering mother and girlfriend but do okay with them. The real standout is Bogart followed closely by Lee Patrick as his moll they breath life into the picture whenever they are on screen. Bacon's direction is nothing special but he keeps things moving along at a good clip. |
| User ReviewDaniel K3: Surprisingly deep and socially conscious picture. It's always kind of funny to see Bogart pictures before he switched over to the movie star A-list. He certainly works as a bad guy, but he plays better as a fully-fledged star. It just seems incredible that it took Hollywood so long to see him for what he was. Raft gives a solid performance as well as the lead. He manages to make us very sympathetic to his plight and thereby to the plight of all ex-cons that just want a second chance. |