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Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, [5] [6] as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk [7] and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 ...
Crossfire: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame. A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1947-08-15
Crossfire is a 1947 Film Noir which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.
- 85 min
Jun 24, 2015 · The movie became instead a searing indictment of anti-Semitism released several months before the similarly themed Gentleman's Agreement. Unlike that Oscar winning picture, Crossfire pulled no punches in its depiction of bigotry and hatred. It stars three Roberts; Young, Mitchum and Ryan. Robert Young plays a pipe smoking detective ...
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- RKO Radio Pictures
Apr 13, 2024 · For the occasion, I’ve decided to re-visit one of the most idealistic films noirs (in terms of understanding and applying the codes to perfection): Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947). The film stars Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, and Robert Ryan, the stars I will focus on for this article. The film also stars Gloria Grahame, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (she lost ...
A fascinating and biting film noir, Crossfire is a good example of the message film disguised as entertainment. It is one of a series of films produced in the later 1940s when the American motion picture industry discovered that adult themes and social problems could produce good box office. The first of two films released in 1947 dealing with anti-Semitism, Crossfire was both a commercial ...
D ark, anonymous city streets and drab interiors reinforce the psychic distance that separates the characters — and human beings, generally — in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire, a postwar meditation on the hate that sat at the heart of World War II. That hate is gloriously embodied in the form of Robert Ryan, who plays the slowly tightening Montgomery, a belligerent, anti-Semitic soldier on ...
