Review by boblipton

This obviously cheaply made near-procedural of federal agents trying to track down and quell the drug traffic in Los Angeles works because its peculiar combination of low lighting and good talent -- quite apparently picked up on the cheap -- combine to yield an occasionally documentary look. The cast is composed of names that rarely rose higher than secondary leads. The cinematographer spent his career starting with movies like HARLEM RIDES THE RANGE, ended it with MA BARKER'S KILLER BROOD and seems to have kept mostly at that level in between. Its director spent his career making B westerns you never heard of and the scriptwriters came out of Gower Gulch and if one ended up writing for HAWAII 5-0 well, it was a good gig.

In short, this movie sounds like something that no one should have ever heard of, yet the details combine in a compelling way. Are they incapable of emoting or underacting? Whatever it is, the result is what counts.