Saturday, January 12, 2013

(NOIR) Cry of the City - 1948 **

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Robert Siodmak?? What have you done sir? You're normally amazing at directing. I don't understand how this was so unimpressive. Victor Mature is one of those actors you want to like so much, but actually he's completely uninteresting and I really don't think much of him. A bit like Katherine Hepburn. He plays a police lieutenant who is trying to hunt down criminal Richard Conte who has escaped from jail after killing a policeman. It's slow and doesn't have the typical noir quality that I love. It has all the characteristics of a B movie although I fear it's not. 

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