Ward Bond

One gets the feeling that the two actors playing the most thuggish roles, Dan Dailey and Ward Bond, had originally been intended to be one. It would have been a tighter drama if Dan Dailey's character was the same as the later one introduced by Bond. That said, both actors contributed so effectively the needed menace to this film. And I have to add that Bond, strong as always, is again screwed in the credits. That's "again" in view of similar fates handed his cast-rankings in "Gone With the Wind" and "Maltese Falcon." I keep wondering, Did he have a crummy agent? BTW, the theme of dangers of fixing intelligence, of whatever kind, to fit official policy ought to have a familiar ring today.