This is a gem of a compact, visceral film noir released in 1948. Here you see the three leads involved in their prickly romance triangle: Claire Trevor, Dennis O'Keefe, and Marsha Hunt. O'Keefe plays a gangster making a prison break, aided by his gun moll girlfriend Claire Trevor who also provides some narration. They end up involving social worker Marsha Hunt who has also fallen in love with O'Keefe. Meantime mobster chief Raymond Burr (he's always solid for a demented villain) is the pyro sadist who O'Keefe took the rap for (the crime is never specified), but Burr wants to welsh on his paying off O'Keefee by having him killed. So, our three fugitives take it on the lam, fleeing from the police dragnet and Burr's henchmen. At one point, they're tearing off in a Willy's Overlander station wagon. My parents had one of the later models. O'Keefe and Trevor plan to make it to Frisco and board a freighter bound for Panama and their new life. I liked the interplay between the two female leads. Trevor is always first rate as the tough but still tender femme fatale. Marsha Hunt is a new actress to me. Wikipedia indicates she was blackballed by the 1950s Hollywood witch hunts. The excellent actor O'Keefe, a heavy smoker, died of cancer at age 60. Anthony Mann directed Raw Deal with his usual gritty style. Imbd.com gives Raw Deal a 7.4/10 rating, but I'd go higher with 8.0.

Raw Deal is a public domain flick. I saw a decent copy streamed from YouTube at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxyrRIHqYGY