Synopsis: It's 1956. A gangster's woman flees Mississippi for New York City with a trunk full of stolen gold. There, she shacks up with a naive man. Soon, her ex-boyfriend will come looking for the gold.
Appraisal: This film has a good premise and builds a reasonable ambiance. The story develops with a certain coherence, but also without being very funny or exciting, except for a certain recurring joke about two portraits; moreover, the script gets irritatingly idiotic at one particular instance when the two reunited brothers interrupt their urgent proceedings -- the result of which might get them killed -- to have one of them bicker about the other not having attended their mother's funeral. The camerawork is rather elementary and unimaginative -- at least it appeared so in my pan-and-scan copy. While I didn't find any of the performances particularly remarkable, one has to admit that the leading actress manages to exude a compelling sexiness in the more seductive sequences. As a curiosity, I add that one of the scenes reproduces the title of another novel by Himes, 'Blind Man with a Pistol'.
Rating: 44
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