Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
by Robert Siodmak
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Dan Duryea, Esy Morales, Stephen McNally, Yvonne De CarloDirector: Robert Siodmak
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
Movie Review: Doesn't get more film noir-ish than this!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is classic film noir in all respects: dark moody lighting, flawed hero, femme fatale, jealous husband, gray-area moral quandaries, pessimistic tone, average person unwittingly gets swept up into a bad situation, unhappy ending, jaded, pseudo-sophisticated dialog. How about this gem of dialog where the Burt Lancaster character says:
"A man eats an apple. He gets a piece of the core stuck between his teeth. He tries to work it out with some cellophane from a cigarette pack. What happens? The cellophane gets stuck in there too. Anna? What was the use. I knew that somehow I'd wind up seeing her that night."
If you love film noir, you will certainly recognize this as a gem. An outstanding film noir story that keeps you gripped, and the film restoration brings outstanding picture quality.
Summary of Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
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 ShannonDrama DVD Video
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