And also one of the best Mickey Rooney's performances, with of course Don Siegel's BABY FACE NELSON, where Rooney also plays a gangster. Both films are rough, tough, gritty but outstanding, far better than for instance DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD, another crime flick but smoother than this one. This is fast paced, brutal, exciting, where the audience is glued to the seat and clichés totally avoided. I think that Don Siegel could have made this film, at least involved in the writing or production. Preston Foster was also vrery good in the 1932 version, but this remake is not a lesser stuff, far from that. Rooney is miles away from what he usually did, even THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE, though another awesome performance fo him.
Review of The Last Mile
