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Criss Cross (Universal Noir Collection)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417011605
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1417011602
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: D25499D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1949
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Editorial Review:
A certified film noir classic, Criss Cross embraces the genre's darkness with an uncompromising tale of doomed lovers and multilayered betrayal. Reuniting with director Robert Siodmak after their success with The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays a love-struck loser who seals his fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment. She encourages their torrid affair but marries a mobster (Dan Duryea); to deflect suspicion, Lancaster lures Duryea into an armored-truck robbery, creating a vortex of greed and passion from which he cannot escape. Featuring the brief screen debut of Tony Curtis, Criss Cross is a stylish masterpiece of clashing fates and fatal attractions; Franz Planer's cinematography creates a shadow world in which every desire is tainted by the threat of violence, and Miklos Rozsa's score underlines a love story that could never end happily. Film noir doesn't get any bleaker--or better--than this. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Man Does Wrong to Win Love
This is a great noir. Lancaster is a man governed by forces he cannot understand. He wants to get away from ex-wife DeCarlo but can't thinking about her and seeking her out, even after she marries creepy Dan Duyea and thus commits himself to crime just to win her back. "Man does wrong to win love" is the most basic film noir plot, and this is one of the early films to set it in stone. Aside from the great story, characters, and dialog, the film has great sets long exterior shots of parts of L.A. ... Read More
Rating:  - Which movie is it?
The film shown on this Amazon page is a drama about a twelve year old boy (David Arnott) raised by a single mom (Goldie Hawn), who happens to be a stripper, in Key West in 1969. It's a well-made film with good acting, but nothing special; it grabs your attention to the situation, but never really resolves it very insightfully.
Most reviewers here have mistakenly written about the 1949 Burt Lancaster film Criss Cross which takes place in Los Angeles, not Key West.
So which is this, the ... Read More
Rating: - A doomed unequited love affair
The Robert Siodmak directed "Criss Cross", has all the classic underpinnings for film noir, black and white cinematography, a plot bordering on criminality and a manipulative bad girl.
The sultry Yvonne DeCarlo plays Anna, the self serving black hearted ex-wife of Burt Lancaster. Lancaster, in an early role, plays good natured schnook Steve Thompson who stills pines for his ex. He left L.A. in order to get her out of his system but is lured back hopelessly infatuated, much to the chagrin ... Read More
Rating: - A fine, bleak noir, close to great, where a person's destiny is written on his face like an epitaph
"I didn't come back on account of her. It had nothing to do with her. I wasn't going to go looking for her. I didn't expect to run into her. I didn't particularly want to see her. I was sure of that if I was sure of anything. Then from the start it all went one way. It was in the cards or it was fate or a jinx or whatever you want to call it."
Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) is a drifter, taking jobs where he finds them. He'd been married to Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) for seven months two years ... Read More
Rating: - LANCASTER AND DECARLO IN GREAT S IODMAK NOIR!
German born director Robert Siodmak has directed at least three (3)film noir classics,"Phanton Lady",The Killers"(1946 version) and this gem,the best of the three "Criss Cross".Yvonne DeCarlo,in her most convincing and sexy role,is Anna the ex-wife of Burt Lancaster,who still longs for her.The femme fatale,a staple in noir films is played to the hilt by ms DeCarlo,who after another brief fling with Lancaster,winds up marrying "crook" Dan Duryea(superb).Lancaster is now an armored car driver/guard and he ... Read More
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