Act of Violence/Mystery Street [DVD] Action he tries to capture them

he tries to capture them for his own profit

and a twist of power gone mad

Determined to fight their way to the surface

and even a still-smitten old flame in her quest to serve her beloved hometown

a socialite left penniless by the stock market crash who takes a job as a writer for a men's magazine

Act of Violence/Mystery Street [DVD] Action he tries to capture themEx World War II pilot Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp legged bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be as director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal) guides a searing Act of Violence, "the first postwar noir to take a challenging look at the ethics of men in combat" (Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir).