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Synopsis. Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) comes back to his Los Angeles home to see his Mother, Father and brother after a few years of drifting around the country following his divorce from Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). He goes into the Round Up, the dancing hall restaurant where he and Anna spent many hours where he bumps into local police ...
Synopsis. In the parking lot of the Round-Up bar in Los Angeles, Steve Thompson meets secretly with his married lover, Anna Dundee, and reassures her that their plan to run away together will not fail. Steve then fights with Anna's gangster husband Slim inside the bar, but police lieutenant Pete Ramirez, Steve's old friend, breaks it up.
Jul 23, 2019 · PHOTO 3: @ 22:27 into ‘Criss Cross’, Bernard Schwartz made his film debut (uncredited) dancing the rumba with Yvonne DeCarlo. The following year he changed his name to Tony Curtis.PHOTO 1: ‘Criss Cross’ villain Dan Duryea (no actor was better at playing psychopaths).‘Criss Cross’ (1949) was Burt Lancaster’s second film noir directed by Robert Siodmak - they did ‘The Killers’ in 1946 (see list at the end of this review).It was also the second time Yvonne DeCarlo co-starred ...
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Jun 11, 2019 · CrissCross 1992 A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother...
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Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.
Robert Siodmak directed several films that many consider near-perfect examples of the noir style, most certainly including Criss Cross, a richly constructed tale of an armored car holdup and the dysfunctional love triangle that led to it. Using an inventive flashback structure and Siodmak’s signature compositional poetry, the film stars Burt ...
