Wheel of Fate

This drama is like a play by Tennessee Williams, intense and loaded with passions and complexes, one brother being orderly at pains with keeping up the business, the other being good for nothing, drinking and gambling and growing debts, easily provoked to recklessness, collecting troubles for himself and others. The first row is about the girl Lucky Price (Sandra Dorne), a loose lady at a night club getting drunk but beautiful enough for both brothers to engage in her fortune, getting her out of that night club by the help of the more responsible brother, while Ted, the stepbrother, is left to go from bad to worse. He is actually the interesting part, Bryan Forbes making a very credible character out of the wanton carelessness of a man without character, who gradually perishes in his nervous breakdown - there are some terrific scenes in the end when they chase each other amidst arriving trains. The music is also excellent. This is a late enduring classic of a noir of a more condensed and intensive calibre touching on a straight documentary style.