Between Two Worlds

John Garfield, the movie star that never was.

I was first turned on to John Garfield in Abraham Polonsky’s The Force of Evil, one of those 1940s crime noirs that nobody talks enough about. I find Garfield’s brutishness appealing, and it was said that he was a forefather to all the method guys to come. I can see it. There’s something unmannered about his performances, something that makes it hard to…