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20 November 1947 (USA)
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A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress...
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An extremely uneven movie with excellent music
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul Lukas | ... | Albert Frédéric |
| Mary Anderson | ... | Mary Roberts |
| Helmut Dantine | ... | Michel Lacoste |
| John Pratt | ... | Edward Durant, editor |
| George Alexander | ... | Insp. Renaud |
| Joy Lafleur | ... | Blanche Lacoste |
| Mimi D'Estée | ... | Renée Brancourt |
| Arthur Lefebvre | ... | Sleigh Driver |
| Lucie Poitras | ... | Hospital Room Sister |
| J. Léo Gagnon | ... | Frederic's Butler |
| Réjeanne Desrameaux | ... | Hospital Reception Desk Sister |
| Germaine Lemyre | ... | Girl with Brancourt's Keys |
| Blanche Gauthier | ... | Brancourt's Landlady |
| Palmieri | ... | Court Librarian |
| Henri Poitras | ... | Detective at Blanche's Apartment |
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Crime City (USA) (reissue title)
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USA:98 min
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Featured in Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979) (TV)
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The early parts of this movie were terribly confusing to me. True, the print I saw was terrible. It looked like 8 millimeter. However, I hung in because of its interesting cast and indeed, it picks up: Mary Anderson was a very appealing actress. Too bad she never became a star. Helmut Dantine was very handsome and his acting is very good, too. And of course, top-billed, we have Paul Lukas. Only four years after his Osacr-winning performance in "Watch on the Rhine," here he is at Eagle-Lion. Talk about the curse of the statue! From its introduction, the music is exceptionally good. The Dantine character is a composer. He has written a piano concerto, which we hear in pieces and then in performance. (Not all of it is performed but it looks like a real orchestra really playing it.) I can't think of a better piece written for a movie except the Korngold cello concerto for the deliriously wonderful "Deception." I love that movie and I love his music. That piece, stripped of the name of Claude Rains's composer, Alexander Hollenius, is now performed and often recorded by major orchestras, as the Korngold Cello Concerto.
Once this movie finds its footing, it's very intriguing. But till then, it's really pretty bad.