New Bright Lights article on Force Of Evil (1948)

Imogen Sara Smith has written in the August issue of the Bright Lights film journal a review of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil (1948).  The article is a good introduction to the movie without giving too much away – an endemic weakness for many reviewers of films noir and writers on film noir.

While rightly focusing on Garfield’s characterisation as the hoodlum lawyer and the relationship with his brother played by Thomas Gomez, Smith gives too little credit to Polonsky’s  solid screenplay and his impressive directorial debut.