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The aging Baby-Boomers are faced with exactly the same issues that Gene Garrison and his sister faced in 1970. We are part of the "sandwich generation", caught between caring about our own kids and our aging parents .Our parents are living longer because of new medicines but with what quality of life? A question a doctor tells Gene in the film. We are forced to decide when our aging folks have to start giving up some freedoms, like driving a car. When is the time to put them in assisted living or a nursing facility. Anyone in their 50's or 60's faced with these issues will understand this movie and maybe it will help them face the choices they are forced to make.

This film is among the group of "B" crime noir movies that Columbia made in the early 1950's such as "The Big Heat" and "The Mob". It has the same taught story and good acting. Clearly nearing the end of her film career, Ginger Rogers is very good playing a mob witness that has had enough of the justice system and needs to be convinced that by telling what she knows in court, she can do something good for maybe the first time in her life. It should be noted that Edward G. Robinson was trying to recover his lost career after being black-listed by HUAC and "B" movies were the best roles he could get until he was cast by Cecil B. DeMille in the Ten Commandments after the release of this film. Brian Keith, best known as "Uncle Bill" in the late 1960's TV show "Family Affair" is also quite good in his role as a police Lt.

With everyone blaming President Obama for not doing this or that to help the country, this is a MUST SEE for all Americans. The film focuses on the rise and fall of the garment industry in Manhattan but the cause of it's demise is much larger than the tragedy of 7th avenue from W.34 st to W.40 st. It is proof, once and for all that the deregulation and trickle down economics of the 1980's put this country in the shape it is in today. The producers cover all of the vital history of what was at one time the largest employer in the City of New York from the tragic Triangle Shirt-Waste fire in 1911 that led to the founding one of the greatest union movements in American history. It's also about greed. Yes, this film is right on the money on what went wrong in the last 30 years in this country, not just in the garment industry.