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Crossfire (1947) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 5, 2005
Budget $250,000
Running Time
1 hour, 26 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Studio RKO Pictures
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Other Titles
• Crossfire (1947)
• Cradle of Fear
• Im Kreuzfeuer (1973)
• Kreuzverhör (1950)
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Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Drama, Suspense, Murder, Detectives, Thieves, Psychos, Police, Investigation, Society, World War II
Tagline: Sensational? No, it's dynamite!
Plot: This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom of a seemingly motive-lacking murder, with the prime suspect a boozy soldier who can only vaguely recall the events of the night. The story really digs its heels into lots of postwar issues--how soldiers need a place to put all their violence once the war is over and the other problems of readjusting to civilian life. Robert Mitchum stars as a friend of the accused soldier who helps the detective solve the case. Edward Dmytryk had already established himself as a fine noir director with MURDER, MY SWEET, made a few years earlier. Here he takes the shadowy, midnight world of desperate people and seedy dives and slyly turns it into a vehicle for the exploration of bigotry. The result is a quietly stunning, low-key classic. Young is especially good as the detective and gets ample help from Mitchum and Robert Ryan in this well-written, atmospheric drama.
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| John Paxton
On the Beach, The Wild One, Murder, My Sweet |
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| Cast |
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 | Lex Barker
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Winnetou I, The Farmer's Daughter |
 | Robert Young
Secret Agent, The Mortal Storm, Northwest Passage | Robert Ryan
The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock | | Paul Kelly
The High and the Mighty, Tarzan's New York Adventure, The Roaring Twenties | Sam Levene
Sweet Smell of Success, ...And Justice for All, The Killers | |
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| Music By |
Roy Webb
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Notorious, Out of the Past |
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