Whistle Stop

Not the best known piece of 40's film noire but well worth a peek to see a budding Ava Gardner who is just on the verge of become one of her era's greatest sex bombs and the great George Raft playing a no good drunk who can't keep a job and hangs around bars playing cards and fighting all the time which might explain why an old lady friend gave me this film! Not sure what she was trying to say but seeing Raft in roles like this is always a pleasure as is watching Victor McLaglen who in what bit of screen time he has manages to out-sleaze Raft!