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The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts and Ellen Drew. Directed by Robert Florey and shot by John Alton, the film has a similar plot (a war hero loses his memory from a combat wound) to another film noir Somewhere in the Night.
Overview. A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past. Robert Florey. Director. Richard H. Landau. Screenplay. Reviews. A review by John Chard. Written by John Chard on March 24, 2014.
The Crooked Way: Directed by Robert Florey. With John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams. War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
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Mar 16, 2020 · The Crooked Way is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Robert Florey. The film was based on a radio play No Blade Too Sharp and features John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew and others. Find out more about the movie here.
- 86 min
Robert Florey’s amnesia noir, The Crooked Way, is brutal and dark, both physically and morally, a tale of lost identity exaggerated beautifully by John Alton’s expressionistic cinematography. When a war injury renders Eddie (John Payne) unaware of his own identity and history, he finds himself pursued by gangsters and approached by Nina ...
Amnesia has served as a popular plot device in countless genre films but it provides a particularly satisfying narrative hook in the obscure but stylish film noir, The Crooked Way (1949). Eddie Rice (John Payne), a World War II veteran and recipient of a Silver Star, returns home to Los Angeles after his release from a veterans hospital.
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