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Cornered (1945 film) Cornered. (1945 film) Cornered is a 1945 American mystery thriller film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk. [2] This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk (after Murder, My Sweet ). [3] The screenplay was written by John Paxton with uncredited help from Ben Hecht .
Warners Home Video's DVD of the Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 5 is a knockout, with off-the-beaten path noir gems and a couple of oddball titles thrown in for variety. Cornered, Desperate, The Phenix City Story, Deadline at Dawn, Armored Car Robbery and Crime in the Streets are so good that we don't miss the extras of earlier Warners noir ...
- Edward Dmytryk, Ruby Rosenberg, Leslie Urbach
- Dick Powell
The tendrils of fascism creep across the globe and through the back most recesses of man’s mind in “Cornered.”. The 1945 noir casts Dick Powell as an injured soldier who refuses the idea of a homecoming, instead setting himself about the task of traveling to Argentina to hunt down the Nazi who murdered his French wife.
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- RKO Radio Pictures
- Edward Dmytryk
Cornered (1945) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... TCM - Summer of Darkness (Film Noir) a list of 41 titles
Cornered is directed by Edward Dmytryk and adapted to screenplay by John Paxton from a story by John Wexley. It stars Dick Powell, Walter Slezak and Micheline Cheirel. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Harry J. Wild. Story is set at the end of World War II and finds Powell as demobbed Canadian flier Laurence Gerard.
Cornered (1945) brings Dick Powell back to the film noir screen, and opens with him being refused a passport between London and France. Undeterred, Powell slams his hands in his pockets, storms out of the passport office, and promptly swims the English Channel. It’s that spirit that dominates Cornered ( 1945, Edward Dmytryk starring Dick ...
