Drawing on hardboiled US fiction, as American film had fed on his own Seven Samurai, the director brings unforgettable intensity to his anxious noir
, with its extended closeup shot of a mad dog snarling into the camera over the opening credits, is about a stolen gun; as with De Sica’s stolen bicycle the year before, the resulting search leads us on a tour of the city, scene by scene into a world of poverty, cynicism and violence.
There are unforgettable sequences: the ballistics department microscope matching up bullet fragments, the Hitchcockian moment in which the gun dealer is tracked down at a baseball match, a nightclub’s backstage changing room where the young dancers collapse into a sweaty, near-comatose heap in the unbearable heat – and the man whose wife has been murdered, ripping up her ripened tomato plants in a frenzy of rage and despair.
Mifune, with his usual fierce leonine handsomeness, plays Gondo, an executive with a shoe company who takes pride in the firm’s well-crafted product and resents his colleagues’ plans to increase profit margins with shoddier goods.
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