Top cast:Asta Nielsen,Leo Peukert,Emil Albes
Director:Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:United Arab Emirates
Year:2005
Storyline:She gleefully left the pawnshop to ell the Boy of the good news.[Note: The Girl heroine was the actual ""sleuth"" who would solve the crime, long before the Boy figured out the set-up.[Cagney""s entrance into the club is memorable - he spits, struts in, and tips his hat forward.] In contrast, Tom""s straight, uptight brother Mike (Donald Cook) works as a street car conductor during he day and goes to school at night, "learnin"" how to be poor," according o Tom.The film was originally titledThe Blind Run -the same as the title of the series of vignettes, both violent and strangely erotic, that Ray had penned.The tough, ruthless cop""s selfish, solitary pursuit of the white-hot apocalyptic object in a mysterious ""Pandora""s box"" ("the great whatzit") leads to nuclear catastrophe and annihilation during the explosive ending at a Malibu beach cottage - although there is no explicit mention of the words bomb, atomic, or thermo-nuclear in the nihilistic film.