This is in my top 5 favorite Noir films. If I remember right English who helped write the script was known to bet on the horses, and play cards with some of the Jewish mobsters in L.A. and L.V. as well as being an acquaintance of Virginia Hill.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green