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NYT Critic’s Pick. R. Drama, Western. Directed by Viggo Mortensen. Mortensen gives his film a nested, at times unnecessarily complicated structure, but with performances this good, it’s hard ...
Backfire is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Vincent Sherman starring Virginia Mayo and Gordon MacRae, with Edmond O'Brien, Dane Clark, and Viveca Lindfors in support. The film was written by Larry Marcus, Ben Roberts and Ivan Goff .
Reviews 36% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run.
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- Vincent Sherman
- Mystery & Thriller
- Virginia Mayo
Taking place entirely between 2 and 6 a.m. on a hot New York night, Odets adapts Cornell Woolrich's original story to take in a cross section of Manhattanites embroiled in a strange search for a mystery murderer.
Aug 14, 2014 · Often incorrectly labeled as a noir film, Backfire is simply a murder plot with a few sparsely applied noir attributes. The strong first act gives the best sense of noir, with its overall blurred perception of reality through illness, surgery, drugs, and the like.
A movie about fools trying to fix their life after they killed the wrong person. There is no reason to like the main characters personalities and they have no real objective or any decent goals to drive the movie forwards.
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