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Criss Cross

Name: Criss Cross
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1949-02-04
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 7.092

★ 7,1 /10 (184 Votes)

1949 EN 88 min

Overview

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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Release date

04/02/1949

Votes

184

Popularity

2.5

When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser... It's a Criss Cross!

Genres

Crime Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

88 min

Burt Lancaster

Steve Thompson

Yvonne De Carlo

Anna

Dan Duryea

Slim Dundee

Stephen McNally

Det. Lt. Peter 'Pete' Ramirez

Esy Morales

Orchestra Leader

Tom Pedi

Vincent

Percy Helton

Frank

Alan Napier

Finchley

Griff Barnett

Pop

Meg Randall

Helen

Richard Long

Slade Thompson

Joan Miller

The Lush

Edna Holland

Mrs. Thompson

John Doucette

Walt

Marc Krah

Mort

James O'Rear

Waxie

John 'Skins' Miller

Midget

Tony Curtis

Gigolo (uncredited)

Gene Evans

Donlan (uncredited)

Beatrice Roberts

Nurse (uncredited)

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Jean Bane

Girl (uncredited)

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Ralph Brooks

Newsstand Proprietor (uncredited)

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Dolores Castle

Girl (uncredited)

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Michael Cisney

Chester (uncredited)

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Corky

Corky the Dog (uncredited)

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Sam Finn

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Lee Tung Foo

Chinese Cook (uncredited)

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Timmy Hawkins

Boy (uncredited)

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Geraldine Jordan

Girl (uncredited)

George Lynn

Andy (uncredited)

Robert Osterloh

Mr. Nelson (uncredited)

Garry Owen

Johnny (uncredited)

Kenneth Patterson

Pepe Bailey (uncredited)

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José Portugal

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Isabel Randolph

Nurse (uncredited)

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Vincent Renno

Roundup Headwaiter (uncredited)

Suzanne Ridgway

Girl in Nightclub (uncredited)

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Stephen Roberts

Doctor (uncredited)

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John Roy

Roundup Bartender (uncredited)

Vito Scotti

Track Usher (uncredited)

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Ann Staunton

Girl (uncredited)

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Diane Stewart

Girl (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim

Waiter (uncredited)

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Robert Winkler

Clark (uncredited)

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Bud Wolfe

Holdup Man at Manhole (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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from filmnoiroftheweek.com I always find the music in film noir interesting. Unlike self-conscious noirs like Farewell, My Lovely and Body Heat, most noir soundtracks are orchestral – not jazz. The slow wailing saxophone over a Robert Mitchum voice-over can be found in noir parodies like the Guy Noir segments of A Prairie Home Companion. Strangely enough, that kind of music track is never actually heard in classic film noir. With some exceptions (Odds Against Tomorrow, for example) jazz and other forms of popular American music is usually heard only when it's performed on screen and not in …

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I should have been a better friend. I shoulda stopped you. Criss Cross is directed by Robert Siodmak and adapted by Daniel Fuchs from Don Tracy's novel. It stars Burt Lancaster, Yvonne de Carlo, Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally. Music is scored by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography is by Franz Planer. Steve Thompson (Lancaster) and old flame Anna (de Carlo) begin to rekindle their love, much to the dismay of those closest to Steve. She's now unhappily married to mobster Slim Dundee (Duryea), they plan to run away together but Slim is apparently getting wise to their affair. When the two are c…

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“Steve” (Burt Lancaster) is quite a decent cove, but he has an Achilles heel. His ex-wife “Anna” (Yvonne De Carlo) is a manipulative creature who knows that she has him around her little finger. His hopes of some sort of reconciliation are dashed when he discovers that she has married local kingpin “Slim” (Dan Duryea). Increasingly desperate, he concocts a cunning plan to raise enough cash to lure her away from him, but along the way earns an enmity that he and, for that matter, she are ill-equipped to deal with. Though Lancaster takes top billing, I felt it was De Carlo who stole the show her…

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