Let's be straight, that's not the best Republic pictures movie, ten million times worst than any Warner Bros production of the same kind, and made twenty years earlier. It is not fast paced, it is talkative, flat, predictable but, I agree, rare. But rare doesn't mean interesting. RG Sprinsteen was not a beginner at this time, and his best years will be confirmed a bit later. It is a crime drama which I don't recommend at all, or only for die hard crime gems diggers. And it is necessary to have much courage to finally make it till the end. Republic pictures were good on westerns and of course serials, the best ever from the Hollywood film industry.