Crossfire
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Time Out says
This ultra-low-budget thriller did what all great B movies do: it broached a subject that 'respectable' movies wouldn't touch. In this case, the racist murder of a Jew (although it was a homosexual in Richard Brooks' source novel, The Brick Foxhole), and the exposure of the murderer's fanatical anti-Semitism. Dmytryk exploits the poverty-row sets for their claustrophobic quality, and introduces 'expressionist' lighting and distorted angles to dramatise the tensions that simmer and finally explode between the characters, GIs back from the war in Europe but not yet discharged. This was the kind of movie that provoked the McCarthy witch-hunt in Hollywood.Author: TR
Release details
UK release:
1947
Duration:
85 mins
Cast and crew
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Music:
Art Director:
Albert S D'Agostino, Al Herman
Cast:
Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Sam Levene, Jacqueline White, Robert Young, Paul Kelly, Gloria Grahame, Steve Brodie
