Pick Up on South Street

Pick Up on South Street (1953)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/]

The Gist:
B movie noir with communist paranoia and the most bullshit chauvinistic romance I have ever seen in classical Hollywood (and that takes a lot). Seriously, it's ridiculous, it ruined the whole movie for me. The guy slaps her around, they kiss, he throws her out the door and she's in love with him. By the end of the film he's defending her honor. Bah, you could have been a cool film Pick Up on South Street, you had a couple really engaging characters going and heightened style very uncharacteristic of your typical low end film. However, your ending is shit (like a lot of B movie endings that just sort of wrap things up quickly without art or tact) and your "male gaze" is nauseating. And yes it hurts my soul to use that phrase. See what you did movie? You turned me into a feminist.