One of the best audio commentaries I ever heard. Mr. Polan gives a fantasic in-depth analysis of the film's themes and secret messages (the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII, and how the hero tries to redeem for such an act), and lots of insight into Sturges' style and cinema techniques. This is what every film scholar should do when making a track. A few pasues, but other than that, a great commentary. 10/10

Polan starts the film historian routine rather well, pointing out various visual and thematic subtleties to which we have not always paid attention‎. On the second half, though, the commentary sadly degenerates into cookie-cutter modern-day pseudo-intellectual overanalyzing and suddenly everything in the movie is McCarthyism parable (something John Sturges himself dismisses on his own Criterion LD commentary) and anti-Western deconstruction...