Like Fritz Lang’s Fury, Try and Get Me is a potent vision of an America ruled by mob mentality. Unemployed WWII veteran Howard Tyler, desperate to feed his family, falls in with Lloyd Bridges’ coldblooded criminal, but their spree of robberies soon turns to murder. The direction of young Communist Cy Endfield reveals a cool, clear rage at the economic and social injustices that are the nightmare behind the American dream. Shortly after this film, Enfield was blacklisted and spent the rest of his career in England. Bridges’ later career as a television star has obscured what a fine actor he was; here he is believably chilling as both predator and victim.