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Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement.
1 Video. 74 Photos. Crime Drama Film-Noir. A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? Director. Edward Dmytryk. Writers. John Paxton. Richard Brooks. Stars. Robert Young. Robert Mitchum. Robert Ryan. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.69. search Amazon.
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Crossfire is a 1947 Film Noir which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.
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Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement.
Crossfire (1947), one of the best film noirs to come out of RKO Studios, is a film of many firsts. It was executive producer Dore Schary's first film for RKO (he would take over as chief of production at MGM in 1948).
Crossfire. Summaries. A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? Homicide Capt. Finlay finds evidence that one or more of a group of demobilized soldiers is involved in the death of Joseph Samuels.
Dark, anonymous city streets and drab interiors reinforce the psychic distance that separates the characters — and human beings, generally — in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire, a postwar meditation on the hate that sat at the heart of World War II. That hate is gloriously embodied in the form of Robert Ryan, who plays the slowly tightening ...
