From the heart of the heart of noir's flashback period, BACKLASH has a few things to recommend it--and it has made the cut at Noir City (LA, 2013). But the flashbacks are more dialogue-based than pictorial, and the plotting is overly convoluted (even for a genre known for its convolution!).

The late great Bill MacV did identify a reason to stick with the film, however:

Surprisingly, Backlash boasts one fine scene which looks as though it was cut from a much better movie and spliced in by mistake. In a railroad yard at night, one of the principals meets up with a drifter who offers to share his bottle and some philosophical musings. It's filmed as an extended, highly shadowed two-shot that grows tighter and more oppressive as the talk turns to the murder case that dominates the headlines--and then to more urgent concerns. It's a sequence that makes Backlash almost worth a look.