City Of Shadows (1955)

A racketeer (Victor McLaglen) pays for his protege (John Baer) to go to law school. But when he graduates, the young man has second thoughts about his mentor's business and this feeling is intensified when he falls in love with a girl (Kathleen Crowley) from a good family. Directed by William Witney (THE BONNIE PARKER STORY). A mundane crime potboiler with Victor McLaglen giving the same blustery performance he'd been giving for years. Equal measures of sentimentality and crime but none of it mounting to anything other than a B movie potboiler. Even with its brief running time of 70 minutes, it quickly becomes tedious. The film ends with a ludicrous shoot out on a ski lift and a wounded and dying McLaglen climbing the ski lift, taking falls and climbing snow covered slopes. With Anthony Caruso, June Vincent, Nicolas Coster, Richard Reeves and Edith Evanson.