Quicksand (1950)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
A garage mechanic pockets twenty dollars from the till to impress a girl, then spends the rest of the picture committing ever-larger crimes trying to cover the first one.
Mickey Rooney, trading his boy-next-door image for a small-time heel, makes a convincing case that noir’s true subject is arithmetic — one bad debt compounding into robbery, blackmail, and worse.
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