The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond. Budd Boetticher’s 1960 portrait of an ice-cold sociopath (Ray Danton) is a high-velocity gangster film devoid of the slightest trace of sentimentality. Factor in Lucien Ballard’s knowingly old-fashioned cinematography and Leonard Rosenman’s letter-perfect score and you get one of the most satisfying B movies ever made (TT).
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