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Il terrore dei gangsters

Titolo originale: Cry Vengeance
  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 22min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
781
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Mark Stevens in Il terrore dei gangsters (1954)
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Un ex-poliziotto è deciso a vendicarsi e a uccidere il gangster che ritiene essere stato responsabile dell'uccisione dei suoi famigliari.Un ex-poliziotto è deciso a vendicarsi e a uccidere il gangster che ritiene essere stato responsabile dell'uccisione dei suoi famigliari.Un ex-poliziotto è deciso a vendicarsi e a uccidere il gangster che ritiene essere stato responsabile dell'uccisione dei suoi famigliari.

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    • Mark Stevens
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Warren Douglas
    • George Bricker
  • Star
    • Mark Stevens
    • Martha Hyer
    • Skip Homeier
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,3/10
    781
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Mark Stevens
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Warren Douglas
      • George Bricker
    • Star
      • Mark Stevens
      • Martha Hyer
      • Skip Homeier
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    • 11Recensioni della critica
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    Mark Stevens
    Mark Stevens
    • Vic Barron
    Martha Hyer
    Martha Hyer
    • Peggy Harding
    Skip Homeier
    Skip Homeier
    • Roxey Davis
    Joan Vohs
    Joan Vohs
    • Lily Arnold
    Douglas Kennedy
    Douglas Kennedy
    • Tino Morelli
    Cheryl Callaway
    • Marie Morelli
    Mort Mills
    Mort Mills
    • Johnny Blue-Eyes
    Warren Douglas
    Warren Douglas
    • Mike Walters
    Lewis Martin
    Lewis Martin
    • Nick Buda
    Don Haggerty
    Don Haggerty
    • Lt. Pat Ryan
    John Doucette
    John Doucette
    • Red Miller
    Dorothy Kennedy
    • Emily Miller
    Edward Clark
    Edward Clark
    • Shop Owner
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    Richard Deacon
    Richard Deacon
    • 'Shiny' Sam - Bartender
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    Bert Stevens
    Bert Stevens
    • Bar Patron
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      • Mark Stevens
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Warren Douglas
      • George Bricker
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    Mark Stevens directs himself in a film noir set in Alaska

    Mark Stevens was a leading player in B movies, and was an excellent cop in THE STREET WITH NO NAME (1948, see my review) and private eye in THE DARK CORNER (1946, see my review), both excellent noirs. Here he got his first chance chance to direct himself. Although he does well enough as a director in other respects, because he could not see himself he probably did not realize that he looked too grim throughout most of the film, never changing his expression during the early portions. This may have made sense in theory, because he a wronged man seeking vengeance, and grief-stricken at the death of his wife and child. But one cannot have a single expression for nearly an hour like that without it becoming monotonous. Stevens furthermore according to the story had to have a severely scarred side of his face, which meant that he could show very little emotion on his face in any case. The film was largely shot at Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska was not even a state at that time, but still a Territory. This was an extremely unusual place to set a film in the 1950s. The location footage, especially the aerial footage, is thus of considerable historical interest, not least to the people who live there today. Mark Stevens went on to direct himself again in TIME TABLE (1956) and directed three more feature films and 50 television drama episodes in the nine years between 1956 and 1965. He last appeared as an actor in 1987, and he died in 1994 at the age of 77. This film is not outstanding, but it is nevertheless a contribution to the noir genre.
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    Knockoff of Big Heat shows fatigue of late noir cycle

    Cry Vengeance owes a debt to the previous year's Fritz Lang film The Big Heat. It too tells the tale of an honest cop whose family was killed in a mob-engineered explosion and who sets out as a crazed vigilante seeking redress. But while The Big Heat sizzles, Cry Vengeance stays tepid, perhaps owing to its sub-Arctic setting.

    The star of earlier noirs The Dark Corner and The Street with No Name, Mark Stevens directs himself as the hate-twisted protagonist, just out of prison after being framed and losing his wife and daughter. (Stevens has aged visibly, and it's not just the scarred-face makeup his character sports.) Strong-arm tactics with plenty of karate chops elicit the information that the man he holds responsible has assumed a new identity in Ketchikam, Alaska. But not only is Steven's arrival expected, he's followed by a platinum-haired gunsel who's the real killer (Skip Homeier, who bears a resemblance to Lee Marvin, The Big Heat's sadistic torpedo).

    Cry Vengeance matches its predecessor in brutality but comes up short everywhere else. Muddy photography wastes the scenic north, while the bland dialogue lacks the epigrammatic edge that's one of the joys of film noir (no "sisters under the mink" insinuation here as in Lang's film). The plot, with its double-crosses, needs a more baroque approach to sell itself.

    On the whole, Cry Vengeance falls victim to the fatigue that, by 1954, was beginning to beset the entire noir cycle. Plots and characters amount, basically, to retreads. Joan Vohs, as Homeier's sozzled moll, couldn't have given this performance without Gloria Grahame's the year before in The Big Heat. With Stevens looking tired, too, it doesn't augur well for Cry Vengeance. But it holds distinction as the only film noir set in the Alaskan Territory, as Hell's Half Acre of the same year was the only one set in the Hawaiian (it wasn't until 1959 that statehood was conferred on both territories).
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    Stevens vs Homeier

    The main interest in this bland and predictable plot is of course the face off between Mark Stevens and an awesome Skip Homeier. Stevens - director and main lead - is nearly as impressive as he was in JACK SLADE, though I prefered this latest movie, which also was a western. This one is good enough noir, crime, for my taste, despite some ending that doesn't excit me that much. It is underrated and would deserve to be more known, again because of Homeier's character. The scenes with him, and especially with Stevens, are pure gems for this kind of B picture. I am happy to have found it again in my library.
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    No Excuse To Have This Movie Lag In So Many Spots

    This is a late entry in the film noir genre and maybe helped ruin this wonderful type of film. This was just too boring, too melodramatic for a good noir.

    It starts off fine but cools off - no pun intended - shortly after "Vic Barron" (Mark Stevens) arrives in Alaska. We see the slow transformation of a hard-nose vengeful man into a decent guy. At least I liked the Alaskan scenery. Who doesn't?

    Actually, the villain "Roxey Davis" (Skip Homeier) was somewhat cool with this strange blonde head of hair. The women, led by Martha Hyer, were decent to watch, too. However, an 83- minute film, especially with good villains and good scenery - shouldn't lag this much.
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    The Alaska stuff is a nice aspect in a routine crime noir

    Cry Vengeance (1954)

    Leading man Mark Stevens falls something short of a cult figure. He is director and first actor in four movies from 1954 (this one, his first) to 1963. He plays his roles as if he is in control, which he is, literally, from the director's chair. He's the hardened type, and here he is bitter bitter bitter, to the point that he is not quite a fully developed character and it's hard to get absorbed in his problem.

    The rest of the movie is functional. It doesn't lack interest--for one thing, it's shot in Alaska, mostly (the exterior shots)--and the supporting cast is middling to good, filling roles we've seen before from pretty girl befriending the unlikely hero to chatty bartenders to a sweet kid who turns the man around through her innocence. And the filming (William Sickner, a routine cameraman with nearly two hundred B-movies to his credit) and editing, likewise, are workaday...the job gets done, but it lacks some kind of richness or aura or plain old drama.

    Then to make it a little more disappointing, a couple of the main themes are taken a little too directly from earlier noirs, namely "The Big Heat" which came out the year before. The theme, established right away, is a cop who is out for vengeance against whoever killed his wife and child in a car bomb meant for him. Stevens plays this part with cold certitude. It's an interesting film in some ways, but a clunker in many others. Take it for what it was, and what it is.

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      The Ketchikan airline depicted, Ellis Air, was an authentic Ketchikan company, founded by Bob Ellis in 1936. The aircraft shown in the movie is a Grumman G-21 Goose amphibious craft. If you look closely at the bottom of the plane you can see the wheels, which were used for ground landings. Ellis Air merged with Alaska Coastal Airlines in 1962, and this concern was itself taken over by Alaska Airlines in 1968.
    • Blooper
      Though Mark Stevens' character is named Vic Barron, his pinky ring clearly has his real initials, "MS."
    • Connessioni
      Referenced in Real Time with Bill Maher: Quentin Tarantino/Max Brooks/Dan Carlin (2021)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 21 novembre 1954 (Stati Uniti)
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      • Stati Uniti
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      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Ketchikan, Alaska, Stati Uniti
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Lindsley Parsons Productions
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      • 1h 22min(82 min)
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