The Wicked Darling

Early Browning has most of the key elements that would later come to define him in place, but it's also strangely benign (for him) and could have leaned more heavily into its pod scum milieu to dig deeper into dirt.

For as much as it has all the grimy trappings of a gritty suspense picture (dive bars, dark alleys, Lon Chaney, etc.), at heart this is a pleasant and predictable little story where everyone's a colorful character. That's not to say it doesn't embrace its slummy atmosphere, nor that it leaves out its share of violent scuffles, just that the overall effect in the end is that of having spent a pleasant hour with a notably charismatic cast.

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