Other Titles • Criss Cross • Gewagtes Alibi (1953)
Synopses for Criss Cross (1949)
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A certified film noir classic, Criss Cross embraces the genre's darkness with an uncompromising tale of doomed lovers and multilayered betrayal. Reuniting with director Robert Siodmak after their success with The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays a love-struck loser who seals his fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment. She encourages their torrid affair but marries a mobster (Dan Duryea); to deflect suspicion, Lancaster lures Duryea into an armored-truck robbery, creating a vortex of greed and passion from which he cannot escape. Featuring the brief screen debut of Tony Curtis, Criss Cross is a stylish masterpiece of clashing fates and fatal attractions; Franz Planer's cinematography creates a shadow world in which every desire is tainted by the threat of violence, and Miklos Rozsa's score underlines a love story that could never end happily. Film noir doesn't get any bleaker--or better--than this. --Jeff Shannon
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster), a hardworking, honest, armored-truck driver has a fatal passion for his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), a gold digger now married to a notorious gangster (Dan Duryea). When their tryst is discovered by her husband, they convince the hoodlum that they met only to get his help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment and now the honest Steve must plan a real robbery or die. Based on the novel by Don Tracy, this film features the film debut of Tony Curtis.
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