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Information
- Year
- 1951
- Runtime
- 82 min.
- Director
- Nicholas Ray
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Film-Noir
- Rating *
- 7.4
- Votes *
- 3,950
- Checks
- 1,206
- Favs
- 94
- Dislikes
- 7
- Favs/checks
- 7.8% (1:13)
- Favs/dislikes
- 13:1
Top comments
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dombrewer
Several things raise this noir out of the ordinary and into the under-rated classic status - Nicholas Ray's clever direction; the beautiful B&W photography of shadow covered city and snow covered countryside; Bernard Herrmann's typically wonderful score and the lead performance of Robert Ryan as city detective Jim Wilson - stonily impassive and impressively grim. Driven by the loneliness of his life and the pressures of his job to a dangerous, sadistic loathing of the criminals he is dealing with, Wilson is sent out of the city for his own good to help investigate the murder of a local girl. His redemption comes in the shape of a blind woman called Mary (Ida Lupino), who knows more about the murder than she initially lets on. It's a shame that Ray didn't manage to stick with the originally planned ending - but all the same it's a strong film; excellently made and well worth a watch. 11 years 2 months ago -
flaiky
Starts brilliantly, but goes downhill and feels a bit silly once Ida Lupino appears...the snowy setting is great though. 8 years 8 months ago -
few visible scars
Regrettably I feel I have to agree with flaiky .. The idea that a film "goes downhill and feels a bit silly once Ida Lupino appears" should just not be possible.. but her character as an overly angelic 'sweet little blind girl' feels like it's from a 1918 Griffiths film played by lillian Gish and it all goes soggy. I see another person here - dombrewer- tells us there should have been another ending .. I'm off to find out what that was, and if it would have saved this otherwise promising film from the syrup... 8 years ago
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