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Criss Cross (1949) Rank 3 Reviews
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Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
All of the elements for a great film noir are here: the ex-con returning home, his ex-wife married to a criminal, the criminal bordering on the psychotic, and an elaborate plot to use a bank robbery as a ticket to freedom. It could have been great, but ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
This one was remade in 1994 by Steven Soderburgh as The Underneath, which was basically pointless except for some good editing and a genuinely frightening performance by William Fitchner in ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Channel 4 Film
A film noir which has Lancaster (reprising his fall-guy role from Siodmak's earlier film The Killers) as Steve, brooding over his divorce from good-time girl Anna (De Carlo) and getting a job driving an armoured car. After finding out that his ex-wife is ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Channel 4 Film
Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)
Robert Siodmak was one of the most influential stylists of the 40s, helping to create, in films such as Phantom Lady and The Killers, the characteristic look of American film noir. But most of his films have nothing more than their pictorial qualities to ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)
Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
Steven Soderbergh directs a fairly common tale of robbery, lust and murder, The Underneath , in his unique, elliptical style. Unfolding through flashbacks within flashbacks, Peter Gallagher and Elisabeth Shue star in the film, set in Austin, about an ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
Film Court (Lawrence Russell)
Criss Cross (1949) dir. Robert Siodmak writ. Daniel Fuchs (from the novel by Don Tracy) cine. Franz Planer (special photo by Ted J. Kent) edt. Ted J. Kent music. Miklos Rozsa (with Esy Morales Rhumba Band) star. Burt Lancaster (Steve Thompson), Yvonne de ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Film Court (Lawrence Russell)
Film Noir of the Week
The above note is in reality all suposition on my part. I've found documentation in several places that mentions the fact that Mark Hellinger began working on CRISS CROSS while completing THE NAKED CITY, and just before he died of a heart attack at the ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Film Noir of the Week
eFilmCritic Reviews
When you leave a place, it's probably best to stay gone. You left for a reason and that reason is probably still there, even if you've been elsewhere for a year or two. Ah, but if Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) had recognized that, then we wouldn't have ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at eFilmCritic Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
"Cynical film noir of obsessive love and betrayal."
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Robert Siodmak ("Phantom Lady"/"The Killers") directs this cynical film noir of obsessive love and betrayal. It's 1940s film noir at its most influentual as far as ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
An armored car driver (Burt Lancaster) is involved in a plan to rob his employers. In a flashback that takes up most of the film, we find out how he returned to his home town to find his ex-wife (Yvonne De Carlo) now married to a gangster (Dan Duryea). ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
Reel.com DVD review (Tim Knight)
Two years after Burt Lancaster made a smashing debut in Robert Siodmak's extremely loose adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic short story The Killers (1946), the star reunited with Siodmak for the distinctly inferior Criss Cross (1948). A minor film ...read the complete Criss Cross movie review at Reel.com DVD review (Tim Knight)
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