Cry of the City (1948)
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Debra Paget, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Synopsis:
A police lieutenant who has spent his career following the progress of slum hoodlum Marty Rome goes all out to catch him when he breaks out of prison hospital after a shootout with a cop.
Review:
Routine, doomed criminal drama with the heavy-lidded Mature following up on his convict-turned-stoolie turn in Kiss of Death by taking the cop role: of immigrant stock himself he understands only too well the temptations, friend of the family, etc. Conte has all the fun meanwhile, as the cop killer who sticks around for a dame, manipulating all and sundry in the process. Paget and Winters get little more to do than Betty Garde's hospital nurse or Hope Emerson's bent masseuse in this regard. It's pacily told and elegantly shot in that flat Fox monochrome, and has a sweet coda in which the Rome kid brother steps back from the abyss, so the audience didn't come out too depressed.
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Debra Paget, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Synopsis:
A police lieutenant who has spent his career following the progress of slum hoodlum Marty Rome goes all out to catch him when he breaks out of prison hospital after a shootout with a cop.
Review:
Routine, doomed criminal drama with the heavy-lidded Mature following up on his convict-turned-stoolie turn in Kiss of Death by taking the cop role: of immigrant stock himself he understands only too well the temptations, friend of the family, etc. Conte has all the fun meanwhile, as the cop killer who sticks around for a dame, manipulating all and sundry in the process. Paget and Winters get little more to do than Betty Garde's hospital nurse or Hope Emerson's bent masseuse in this regard. It's pacily told and elegantly shot in that flat Fox monochrome, and has a sweet coda in which the Rome kid brother steps back from the abyss, so the audience didn't come out too depressed.
Country: US
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Debra Paget, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Synopsis:
A police lieutenant who has spent his career following the progress of slum hoodlum Marty Rome goes all out to catch him when he breaks out of prison hospital after a shootout with a cop.
Review:
Routine, doomed criminal drama with the heavy-lidded Mature following up on his convict-turned-stoolie turn in Kiss of Death by taking the cop role: of immigrant stock himself he understands only too well the temptations, friend of the family, etc. Conte has all the fun meanwhile, as the cop killer who sticks around for a dame, manipulating all and sundry in the process. Paget and Winters get little more to do than Betty Garde's hospital nurse or Hope Emerson's bent masseuse in this regard. It's pacily told and elegantly shot in that flat Fox monochrome, and has a sweet coda in which the Rome kid brother steps back from the abyss, so the audience didn't come out too depressed.