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- ON DANGEROUS GROUND is tautly directed by that master of stark dramas, Nicholas Ray. Ryan and Lupino give sterling performances but the story line is broken up into two distinct segments, which lessens the film's impact and cohesiveness. It failed to hit at the box-office and RKO lost $425,000 on this above-average film noir entry.
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Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino's film noir On Dangerous Ground (1951) is a fascinating portray of a policeman worn down by the depravity he must deal with on a daily basis, who must learn to love...
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With a run-of-the-mill opener, we meet Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan), a cynical city cop who has a violence burning inside of him. After an outburst where he beats a suspect, the chief reassigns him to a case upstate. The rain-soaked city streets are traded in for snowy mountains and an isolated town. He’s sent to find the murderer of a young girl, who’...
On Dangerous Ground fits nicely into Ray‘s oeuvre. Like In a Lonely Place (1951), a lonely and violent man is given a chance to show his empathy through the help of a woman. Like They Live by Night (1949) or Johnny Guitar (1954), the film opens with all the tropes of a genre but then quickly reveals itself to be something else entirely, some kind o...
Like the characters they lovingly highlighted in their films, Ray and Lupinoexisted on the fringes. They existed in some ways just at the right moment, the twilight of the studio system, which allowed them to operate with its industrious resources for relatively low budgets and little oversight. But then again, they were perhaps too early to the ga...
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On Dangerous Ground is a 1951 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino, and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the 1945 novel Mad with Much Heart by Gerald Butler.
Cop helps blind girl whose brother is murder suspect. Manhunt melodrama, brooding and well-handled.
On Dangerous Ground Reviews. Fluid and confident in the headlong way it plays, a noir thriller that immerses us in a world, presents its problems and sets out to solve them through a morality...
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
'On Dangerous Ground' is a very original and striking movie, one of the most interesting to come out of 1950s Hollywood. The movie is in two halves. The first is urban and sees Robert Ryan play Jim Wilson a brutal but seemingly moral cop who appears to be on the brink of a complete breakdown.
