Also, of course, known as THE SOUND OF FURY--a more double-edged title...

Who's more psychopathic--Lloyd Bridges here, or Lawrence Tierney in BORN TO KILL? Are we able to measure that with existing technology? Lovejoy's character here is much more of a straight victim than Elisha Cook in BtK, who'd been more complicit with Sam Wilde for much, much longer and knew that--as Dick Powell says about Mike Mazurki in MURDER, MY SWEET, "That was like lighting a piece of dynamite and telling it not to go off..."