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Incrocio pericoloso

Titolo originale: The Crooked Way
  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 30min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,6/10
1693
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Ellen Drew, John Payne, and Sonny Tufts in Incrocio pericoloso (1949)
Film NoirCrimeDramaThriller

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWar hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.

  • Regia
    • Robert Florey
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Robert Monroe
    • Richard H. Landau
  • Star
    • John Payne
    • Sonny Tufts
    • Ellen Drew
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,6/10
    1693
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Robert Florey
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Robert Monroe
      • Richard H. Landau
    • Star
      • John Payne
      • Sonny Tufts
      • Ellen Drew
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    • 19Recensioni della critica
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    John Payne
    John Payne
    • Eddie Rice aka Eddie Riccardi
    Sonny Tufts
    Sonny Tufts
    • Vince Alexander
    Ellen Drew
    Ellen Drew
    • Nina Martin
    Rhys Williams
    Rhys Williams
    • Police Lt. Joe Williams
    Percy Helton
    Percy Helton
    • Petey
    Hal Baylor
    Hal Baylor
    • Coke
    • (as Hal Fieberling)
    John Doucette
    John Doucette
    • Police Sgt. Barrett
    Don Haggerty
    Don Haggerty
    • Hood
    Charles Evans
    Charles Evans
    • Police Capt. Anderson
    • (as Charlie Evans)
    Jack Overman
    Jack Overman
    • Hood
    Greta Granstedt
    Greta Granstedt
    • Hazel Downs
    Crane Whitley
    Crane Whitley
    • Dr. Kemble…
    Raymond Largay
    • Arthur Stacey
    John Harmon
    • Kelly
    Harry Bronson
    • Danny
    Garry Owen
    Garry Owen
    • Man from Green Acres Mortuary
    Chet Brandenburg
    Chet Brandenburg
    • Diner Customer
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    Frank Cady
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      • Robert Florey
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Robert Monroe
      • Richard H. Landau
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    dougdoepke

    Unexceptional Except for Visuals

    Decent, if unexceptional noir. Amnesiac ex-GI (Payne) exits VA hospital to pursue his real identity, which soon involves him in LA underworld. Real star here, as others point out, is photographer Alton, who provides the production with a strong visual edge. Too bad that neither the script nor the performances rise to that same visual level. Payne is workman-like as the afflicted vet trying to escape his old life and start a new one. However, there's nothing dramatically distinctive about his presence. Note too how deglamorized Drew is in her role as Nina, which is unusual for that kind of gangland role.

    The real problem, however, as others also point out, is Sonny Tufts' impersonation of a tough guy mastermind. It's just not his natural disposition, and he lacks the acting range to successfully fake it. Instead, we get a series of near laughable facial distortions meant to prove his tough guy intent. On the other hand, in the right kind of nice guy role, e.g. Easy Living {1949}, Tufts could be quite effective. Too bad we don't get more of Percy Helton's raspy Petey. He lends just the right kind of character color the movie sorely needs.

    Likely, the film is too low-key for its own good. Not even the abrupt killing of the cop registers the way it should. We simply observe without being made to feel. Anyway, the movie remains a visual treat in b&w, even though the dramatics fail to work up a level of edge or impact that could make the results memorable. A routine noir, at best.
    7robert-temple-1

    Solid Amnesic Noir Thriller

    This is one of those post-War noir films about a soldier with amnesia. The film is chiefly notable for its excellent expressionist noir cinematography by Austrian émigré John Alton, with some splendid scenes such as two people tensely talking to each other in bold silhouette. Sometimes the stark lighting and dramatic shots are almost too much, as in the beginning when the psychiatrist who has treated John Payne in the Veterans' Hospital tells him as starkly as the lighting of the scene that there are two types of amnesia, organic and psychological, and he has the organic type which cannot be treated because he has shrapnel in his brain. Knowing only that he enlisted in the Army from Los Angeles (he later discovers it was under a false name, which is why the Army cannot discover anything to tell him about his background), Payne is released from hospital and goes back to his origins to see if he can discover anything about who he is. The film moves right along and does not waste time with exposition, so as soon as Payne steps off a train at Union Station, he is recognised by some cops who haven't seen him in five years. Payne then has the shocking realization that he had been a criminal, and he is immediately sucked into dangerous and compromising situations, involving people who want him dead. Ellen Drew is excellent as his former wife who has trouble believing that he is not pretending to have lost his memory, and doesn't want to help him at first. Two of Payne's strong points as an actor were looking bewildered and looking resolute, so he is well cast, as he has to do both in turn. Sonny Tufts is terrifying as a vicious criminal who wants to kill Payne, and one suspects that the film crew must have been scared to death of him. This is a good B thriller of modest pretensions. John Payne was a very nice man with excellent manners and a pleasant personality. I only met him once. My mother and I called on him backstage after he had been in a play. She and he had known each other when growing up in Roanoke and Salem, Virginia. She told me Payne was from what used to be called 'a good family', he was a glamorous young man whom all the girls were chasing, but he got bored with Virginia and decided to become an actor. She had a very high regard for him, and my impression of him was that he was a fine fellow.
    7hitchcockthelegend

    Organic Shrapnel In The Head.

    The Crooked Way is directed by Robert Florey and adapted to screenplay by Richard H. Landau from the Radio Play "No Blade Too Sharp" by Robert Monroe. It stars John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Harry Bronson and Hal Baylor. Music is by Louis Forbes and cinematography by John Alton.

    World War II veteran Eddie Rice (Payne) is suffering from permanent amnesia after a piece of shrapnel was lodged in his brain. With no recollection of his past life, he heads off to the only place he has a link with, the army registration office in Los Angeles. No sooner does he arrive there he is picked up by the cops, and soon his past life slowly begins to piece together, and it doesn't make for good news at all…

    The amnesia plot device is served up once again for a film noir make-over, with mixed results. As a story it just about registers as interesting, there's not nearly enough made of the premise, with much of Eddie's memory recollections a bit too convenient for comfortable dramatic purpose. The smart hook is that Eddie, now a genuine nice guy, begins to find out he was something of bad man, very much so, and there are plenty of people displeased with him. There's also some considerable violence dotted throughout, aggression is palpable, while lead cast performances are more than adequate for the material to hand.

    However, on a visual level The Crooked Way is on a different planet to the screenplay. John Alton brings all his skills as a film noir cinematographer here, photographing the whole film through a noir kaleidoscope. Characters move through shadows and light, or are bathed in various dark reflections, with the interior sequences brilliantly adding an aura of mental fog. With Florey throwing his bit in the mix as well, with canted angles and isolated lighting of the eyes, it's a top draw noir of the film making style. Their work deserves a better story, but regardless, because of the tech quality and the safe nature of the premise, this has to be a comfortable recommendation to anyone interested in film noir. 7/10
    bob the moo

    Enjoyable drama but the script and Payne fail to make good on the potential in the sweep of story and characters

    War hero Eddie Rice returns to his home town as a result of a serious head injury that has left him with no real memory of who he is and nothing in his files that suggests where he should go. He decides to hang around ad hopefully meet someone he knows who will introduce him to another and another until his life is back in focus. What he doesn't reckon on though is that the first people to recognise him will be the police – who don't buy the idea that violent hood Eddie Riccardi has "lost his memory". This is a sentiment that gangster Vince Alexander shares when he discovers that the man who turned states evidence against him is back in town.

    An interesting concept in this film. The idea that a "war hero" comes back to discover that really he was a violent criminal, a man he himself would have disliked and that he has to deal with the consequences of a past that he has no recollection of. In theory it could have been tough and morally complex and indeed I was hoping that these aspects would make for a dark and strong crime drama. In a way the actual product was both satisfying and a bit disappointing. The plot provides some good drama. It doesn't all ring true and it lacks the moral uncertainty that I had hoped for but it does still work well enough for what it is. If anything the script doesn't totally deserve Florey as director because the latter does do a solid job of working in the shadows and of framing shots to maximise the darkness within them.

    The script doesn't make this same effect work within the story or characters though and indeed ethically it is perhaps too simplistic, with Eddie himself being disappointedly disconnected from his past. Of course I have to acknowledge that in this regard John Payne is miscast. He never convinces as a man struggling with anything (other than a sleepy delivery) and there is never a connection to his past in anything he does. Contrast his performance (and indeed what this film does) with Mortensen in "A History of Violence" and you can see where he and the material really don't deliver all they could (should) have done. Tufts works better but in fairness perhaps has a simpler character to pull off. He is a typically tough bad guy, full of patience and menace in his delivery – I liked his scenes but he conspires to make Payne seem weaker by comparison. Drew, Williams, Helton and others all do well enough for what is asked of them but the main expectation was on Payne and the film cannot shake the feeling that he is just not up to the task.

    Overall then a solid enough drama but not up to the standard that it had the potential to be. Florey's direction works well with the cinematography (which is perhaps typical for the genre but still good) and it is just a shame that neither the script nor Payne are able to make more out of the potential within the sweep of the story and characters.
    8bmacv

    Two Johns (Payne and Alton) make obscure amnesiac-veteran noir worth reviving

    One measure of The Crooked Way's obscurity may be that the only copy I could track down was subtitled – in Hebrew. That obscurity is puzzling, because the movie is, if not a superior, certainly an above-average entry in the noir cycle. It boasts John Payne as its star, but before Phil Karlson groomed him into an archetypal noir protagonist. What's more, none other than John Alton was cinematographer, casting his customary shadowy spell; while he doesn't scale the dark peaks he did in collaboration with Anthony Mann, he makes French-born director Robert Florey's film look very good – very ominous – indeed.

    But The Crooked Way stays eclipsed by a movie of three years earlier eerily close in theme and milieu, Somewhere in the Night, starring John Hodiak. Hodiak and Payne both play amnesiac veterans trying to reconstruct their troubling pasts in journeys through the underbelly of Los Angeles.

    In The Crooked Way, Payne, having won a Silver Star but lost his memory, gets discharged from a veterans' hospital and heads `home;' that he hails from L.A. is all he knows about himself. But at Union Station, two police detectives meet him, calling him Eddie Riccardi (so far as he knows, he's Eddie Rice). Five years earlier, as it turns out, Payne worked for mob boss Sonny Tufts, whom he set up then fled to the Army; he was married to Ellen Drew, also connected to the syndicate. Ultimately, Payne finds himself hounded by the police and beaten by the mob, then framed for murder. He's running for his life and out of people he's told he can rely on....

    Payne, with his brooding eyes and impassive visage, makes a more convincing vet and victim than Hodiak, but, apart from that, the story gets told conventionally. That raspy-voiced gnome Percy Helton scuttles around as one of Tufts' eye-and-ear operatives, and Drew gets some tough moments in strapless gowns (though inevitably, when her character softens, she goes bland). Still, it's a solid noir that deserves rehabilitation – if for no other reason than that it preserves Alton's precious photography.

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    • Quiz
      The La Rue as seen in the film was a famous restaurant at 8361 Sunset Blvd. on the Sunset Strip.
    • Blooper
      The train depicted as taking Eddie from San Francisco (where Letterman Army Hospital was) to Los Angeles is actually a Pennsylvania Railroad streamlined K4 locomotive, shown on their three-track mainline. This shot has been used in other films.
    • Citazioni

      Eddie Rice: [to Nina Martin] Keep your lights off and the motor running.

    • Connessioni
      References Tragedia a Santa Monica (1948)
    • Colonne sonore
      Jingle Bells
      (uncredited)

      Written by James Pierpont

      Arranged by Louis Forbes

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    • Data di uscita
      • 22 aprile 1949 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Union Station - 800 N. Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Eddie Rice's arrival by train in Los Angeles. specifically the main entrance under the distinctive signage.)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Benedict Bogeaus Production
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      • Black and White
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