The heist is only the beginning of action and suspense in Memduh Ün’s Ölüm pesimizde (US: Death Stalks Us), an unstoppably entertaining Turkish crime film starring the handsome Ayhan Isik as a man determined to save his father from execution. Burhan (Isik) is engaged to Zehra (Fatma Girik), whose older brother Hosni (Reha Yurdakul) not only aggressively opposes their marriage but possesses violent, sociopathic tendencies that will culminate in black eyes on multiple women’s faces and a shameful body count with no trace of remorse (Hosni’s in the upper echelon of repugnant film noir villains, right up there with Tommy Udo and Cody Jarrett). Using his contacts in the accounting department, Hosni orchestrates a burglary of the local factory in broad daylight during which two factory workers are killed before the thieves escape; circumstantial evidence implicates Burhan’s father, who is convicted for the killings and lands on Death Row. Burhan’s investigatory efforts to clear his father’s name, which drive the second half of the film, comprise near death, sexual temptation, chases through rail yards, shootouts, fist fights next to the crunching gears of factory machinery, and daring leaps from the top of one train car to another. Like many Turkish films of the period, the editing is often jumpy and frenetic and the musical score can be overblown (more Stravinsky!), but Ün’s direction combines the quotidian with the exaggerated to bring each scene to vivid life.