Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Producer: Richard Brooks, Robert Siodmak, John Huston, Miklós Rózsa, Arthur Hilton
IMDb Score: 7.4/10 by 175 users
Runtime: 105 minutes
Released: 8/28/1946