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The bow arches, but when Odets and Aldrich let their arrow fly, it turns out to be little more than a schoolboyish spitball. They have a truth, but they make it seem like a lie by suggesting that the big bosses in Hollywood do murder in the regular course of business. It may be so, but the public will not believe it. Furthermore, the ideologizing is almost childishly vague. At the fadeout, when Ida Lupino stands there crying "Help! Help!" the moviegoer may wonder just whom he is being asked to help—a lot of unhappy Hollywood millionaires? As far as most moviegoers are concerned, they can all go strangle on their gold-plated Corn Flakes.