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Director:
Writers:
Daniel Fuchs (writer)
Don Tracy (novel)
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Release Date:
1949 (USA) more
Tagline:
When you Double-Cross a Double-Crosser...IT'S A CRISS-CROSS! more
Plot:
Steve Thompson, still obsessed with his fickle ex-wife, is drawn by her into the underworld... full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Actress Yvonne De Carlo Dies at 84
(From IMDb News. 10 January 2007)
User Comments:
A Masterpiece of Master Robert Siodmak more (37 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Lancaster | ... | Steve Thompson | |
| Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Anna | |
| Dan Duryea | ... | Slim Dundee | |
| Stephen McNally | ... | Pete Ramirez | |
| Esy Morales | ... | Orchestra Leader | |
| Tom Pedi | ... | Vincent | |
| Percy Helton | ... | Frank | |
| Alan Napier | ... | Finchley | |
| Griff Barnett | ... | Pop | |
| Meg Randall | ... | Helen | |
| Richard Long | ... | Slade Thompson | |
| Joan Miller | ... | The Lush | |
| Edna Holland | ... | Mrs. Thompson (as Edna M. Holland) | |
| John Doucette | ... | Walt | |
| Marc Krah | ... | Mort |
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Runtime:
88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Australia:PG | Norway:16 | Spain:13 | France:U | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #13393) | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Angel's Flight Railway, Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Trivia:
Vito Scotti's first film appearance. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Steve and Pop leave the armored truck to carry the payroll bags into the company Steve has 3 bags and Pop has 2. Then after the explosion, Steve has 2 and Pop has 3. more
Quotes:
Steve Thompson:
She's all right, she's just young.
Mrs. Thompson:
Huh! Some ways, she knows more than Einstein.
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Version of Underneath (1995) more
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While driving an armored car in a lonely road, Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) recalls his life, after divorcing his beloved wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) and working in many places in the United States of America, from the moment he returned home in Los Angeles a few days ago. Although traveling for almost two years trying to forget Anna, he is still obsessed with her. However, when he arrives in town, the sentimentally inconstant Anna gets married with the gangster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). Steve plans a heist of the armored car with Slim, expecting to double-cross the criminal and escaping with Anna to another city to begin a new life, but things do not happen as he intended it was. "Criss Cross" is a magnificent film-noir, indeed another masterpiece of master Robert Siodmak. From the initial long scene, with an aerial view of Los Angeles reaching a spot in a parking area where Steve and Anna are having a conversation, to the conclusion of the story, there is no flaw in the script. Burt Lancaster has an outstanding performance in the role of a honest man obsessed with his former wife, who becomes criminal trying to regain the love of his fickle ex-wife. Yvonne De Carlo is also perfect and very beautiful, in the role of a cold and manipulative woman, being a perfect "femme-fatale". The black and white photography with many shadows is awesome in the DVD released in Brazil by the distributor Classicline, and the music score is simply perfect. In 1995, Steven Soderbergh updated this story with the excellent remake "Underneath". My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Baixeza" ("Lowness')