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| RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: November 5, 1949 |
Starring:
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Harry Harvey, Helen Craig, Howard Da Silva, Ian Wolfe, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Bryant, Will Wright, William Phipps
Summary:
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
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It's permeated with a sweetness and vulnerability unusual for any crime movie. [29 May 1998, p.N]
Inspired by the story of Bonnie and Clyde, superbly performed by Granger, O'Donnell and (as the evil gang leader) Howard De Silva. The opening scene shot from a helicopter was revolutionary in its day. [01 Jun 2014]
Ray's assured debut as director is a brilliant noir combination of love story and crime thriller. [24 Dec 2005, p.48]
Ray's tense choreographic staging and tightly framed compositions give the film a sensuous, nervous feeling of imminent betrayal. Yet this film-noir stylization, elegant in design terms and emotionally powerful, is also very simplistic; the movie suffers from metaphysical liberalism--social injustice treated as cosmic fatalism.
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