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- 1947 · Western · 1h 35m
Desert Fury is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen, and starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott and Burt Lancaster. Its plot follows the daughter of a casino owner in a small Nevada town who becomes involved with a racketeer who was once suspected of murdering his wife.
- $2.9 million (US rentals)
- Hal B. Wallis
1 Video. 63 Photos. Crime Drama Film-Noir. The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them. Director. Lewis Allen. Writers. Robert Rossen. Ramona Stewart. A.I. Bezzerides. Stars. John Hodiak. Lizabeth Scott. Burt Lancaster. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Lewis Allen
- 1947-08-15
"Desert Fury is the gayest movie ever produced in Hollywood's golden era. The film is saturated - with incredibly lush color, fast and furious dialogue dripping with innuendo, double entendres, dark secrets, outraged face-slappings, overwrought Miklos Rosza violins. How has this film escaped revival or cult status?
Eddie Bendix and his mentor and henchman, Johnny Ryan, two gangsters in the gambling trade, return to the small desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, outside Reno, and stop at a bridge where Eddie's wife died in a car crash. Having run into some trouble conducting business in Las Vegas, Eddie now hopes to get involved in the local gambling racket.
Eddie Bendix and his mentor and henchman, Johnny Ryan, two gangsters in the gambling trade, return to the small desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, outside Reno, and stop at a bridge where Eddie's wife died in a car crash.
- Lewis Allen, Richard Mcwhorter, Gerd Oswald
- John Hodiak
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Desert Fury. An Old West gambler (John Hodiak) falls in love with the proper daughter (Lizabeth Scott) of a gambling-house madam.
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- Western
Desert Fury is directed by Lewis Allen and adapted to screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen from the novel Desert Town written by Ramona Stewart. It stars Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Mary Astor, Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey. Music is by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography by Edward Cronjager and Charles Lang.
