What can you say about a director whose works include the very right wing "Fountainhead" and the very left leaning "Our Daily Bread"? That he's wildly uneven? Sure seems like it. And that erratic nature is very much on display in this at times affecting and at times mawkish socialist utopia flic. Give it a B minus. PS...Could Vidor have picked a duller leading man than Tom Keene?