On Dangerous Ground
by Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
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Actor: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward BondDirector: Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
Writer: Nicholas Ray
Writer: A.I. Bezzerides
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 82 unknown-units
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Brothers
Product features:
- FIlm Noir
Movie Reviews of On Dangerous Ground
Movie Review: An underrated masterpiece.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the most underrated films is an existential masterpiece from a cult director Nicholas Ray. Some people often claim this film as a failure because they think it is made of awkward two parts, the city part and the country part. They say these parts do not quite brend, and the fact doesn't help this film to be an existential film noir.
Well, I must strongly disagree with them. Actually, the story must carry on within the contrast of two parts, and that is prime intention of ever poetic Nick Ray. Its a film of redemption of a violent man, and this man, beautifully played by Robert Ryan, struggle through the dark city and the bright country side to realize his true self. Ryan, being one of the most memorable actors in history of cinema, delivers master acting which caputures not only violent side of a fallen man, but tender emotion of a wronged citizen. Ryan's character, Jim Wlson, faces drastic environmental change, and this change is the key to the film's artistry. The story telling is quite philosophically and sophisticatedly done here indeed.
Perhaps, Ray and Ryan are our men and major keys to the film's success, there are other delightful talents involved. Ida Lupino is beautifully desperate as the blind angel, and Ward Bond is powerfully agressive as the blood thirst revenger. Bernard Herrmann's music score is strikingly stunning, and most notablly, George Diskant's magnificent black & white photography brings us to a magical world of dark passion and spiritual reformation.
For a long time, this film had been neglected by the viewers, but it is good to know that, now, many would site this as a classic film. I must rate this film as one of the best films of Nick Ray along with THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, JOHNNY GUITAR, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and BITTER VICTORY. What a cinematic poem , and a masterpiece this is!
Just listen to these voices!
Although Ray was unhappy with the film, it represent one of his best. -ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FILM NOIR
On Dangerous Ground was an esoteric masterpiece, which Nicholas Ray and screenwriter A.I.Bezzerides adapted from the British novel Mad with Much Heart by Gerald Butler. -FRANKLIN JARLETT, ROBERT RYAN:A BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL FILMOGRAPHY
But enough of political or metaphorical readings - this is one great movie. -GEOFF ANDREW, THE FILMS OF NICHOLAS RAY
One of the loveliest of Nick Ray's movies. -DAVE KEHR, CHICAGO READER
Perched between late-'40s noir and mid-'50s crime drama, this is one of the great, forgotten works of the genre. -FERNANDO F. CROCE, SLANT MAGAZINE
Even among Nicholas Ray movies, On Dangerous Ground is overlooked, without the punched-up dialogue of They Live by Night or the operatic scale of Johnny Guitar. But it's among the most nakedly emotional of Ray's great works, at once taut and poetic, like the man himself. -BRUCE GRAHAM, PHILADELPHIA CITYPAPER
One of noir's most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption. -NICK SCHAGER, LESSONS OF DARKNESS
This is a movie of more subtle appeal than those better-known works. Quieter, less dense, and less quirky, it nonetheless has many of the same virtues and thematic preoccupations as those films and really should be considered one of Ray's key works. -R. D. FINCH, THE MOVIE PROJECTOR
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which is the best known of his(Nicholas Ray) pictures, was central for my generation, and it was hugely influential. But I prefer BIGGER THAN LIFE and JOHNNY GUITER, both in color, as well as the earlier black-and-white pictures IN A LONELY PLACE and ON DANGEROUS GROUND. -MARTIN SCORSESE
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