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Amazing!

posted 16 years ago by dehumanized
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I think this movie's absolutely incredible. Probably the best 50's crime film (of film noir, if that's how you wanna put it) ever made. Great, great stuff.

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[–] hotfriend1 16 years ago

Agreed. One of the 50 best crime films and an outstanding example of film noir from the Fifties or any other era. Bravo!

[–] marvel88 16 years ago

It was a fantastic movie, I really enjoyed it. Thelma Ritter really shined, but I loved Richard Widmark in it.

"I know you're in there, Fagerstrom!"-Conan O'Brien

[–] sightless 16 years ago

yup; the movie was very well done

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[–] RobbieCalifornia 14 years ago

He was so good. I had never seen Jean Peters looking so glammed up, she looked like Ava Gardner a bit.

[–] lithotomy 11 years ago

Interesting. I thought it was a snoozefest, I really couldn't get into it. I finished it because it picked up at the end with the "one shot" that took me by surprise (right before the dumbwaiter part)...

and I agree, the film was really well made, well acted, everything.

But the story bored me to tears, not at all what I was expecting, even after reading the back of the DVD a couple times. I felt no chemistry between kandy/candy and the pickpocket either.