Flawless, American cinema at its best.

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2001)

This movie is nigh on flawless. The script is challenging yet on repeated viewings rewarding. John Huston matches any screen villain before or since and the convoluted plot is evocative of Chandler. Typical of the pre-Star Wars era and representative of early seventies Hollywood cinema which challenged the intellect as much as any contemporary European cinema.