This is a very remarkable morality by Graham Greene, telling the story of a rich man escaping from justice, meeting with worse adversities at each new turn and effort to get further away, with both some bizarre twists to the tale and some very touching moments. He is played by Rod Steiger, who specialised in highly debatable and unpleasant characters, of which this is one of his worst and most upsetting. It's a very pathetic and depressing story, mostly reminding of Erich von Stroheim's "Greed" - this is the same kind of abyss into the dead end which any fixation wit greed must lead into. However, there is a dog who saves the situation.
It is also remindful of "The Scar" with Paul Henreid with a similar intrigue of an escapee from justice changing his identity and finding his new identity a worse trap than the discarded one. However, the film makes you think and shows some depth, like all Graham Greene's stories, of understanding into human nature, and is admirable for its sustained consistence in demonstrating the inevitability of the teachings of fate. Noel Willman makes a wonderful Mexican police officer, and Bernard Lee seconds him.
It is also remindful of "The Scar" with Paul Henreid with a similar intrigue of an escapee from justice changing his identity and finding his new identity a worse trap than the discarded one. However, the film makes you think and shows some depth, like all Graham Greene's stories, of understanding into human nature, and is admirable for its sustained consistence in demonstrating the inevitability of the teachings of fate. Noel Willman makes a wonderful Mexican police officer, and Bernard Lee seconds him.