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Criss Cross is a 1949 American film noir crime film starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea, directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Daniel Fuchs based on Don Tracy's 1934 novel of the same name.
- Michael Kraike
- Universal-International
Mar 12, 2020 · Criss Cross is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Robert Siodmak starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea, from Don Tracy's novel of the same name. This film was shot partly on location in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles.
- Mar 12, 2020
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- Felicity Dungworth
Criss Cross: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally. An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.
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- Robert Siodmak
- Not Rated
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An armored-car guard (Burt Lancaster) must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife (Yvonne De Carlo) by her gangster husband (Dan Duryea).
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- Burt Lancaster
- Robert Siodmak
- Universal International Pictures
Criss Cross (1949) is a classic period film noir, with a heist gone wrong, and a lonesome hero returning to Bunker Hill to find love and certain doom.
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Considered one of the best of the film noirs to come out of Hollywood in the post-war years, Criss Cross (1949) tells the story of an honest armored-car guard whose involvement with his scheming ex-wife, now married to a sleazy gangster, lands him in the middle of a tangled and disastrous robbery.
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