La Furie du désert

Original title: Desert Fury

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Burt Lancaster, John Hodiak, and Lizabeth Scott in La Furie du désert (1947)

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

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Film Noir Crime Drama Romance Thriller

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

2.3K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Doorman
(uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

Mike - Bartender
(uncredited)

Mike Lally

Dealer
(uncredited)

Ralph Peters

Pete - Cafe Owner
(uncredited)

Ed Randolph

Dealer
(uncredited)

Tom Schamp

Dan - Deputy
(uncredited)

Ray Teal

Bus Driver
(uncredited)

Director
- Lewis Allen
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Trivia
The name of the town, Chuckwalla, is the name of a type of lizard found in the southwestern United States. It's a Shoshone Indian word for a flat, dark lizard.

Goofs
At 40 minutes in, when Tom Hanson (Burt Lancaster) pulls up to where Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott) is and parks, the car is at an angle to the walk, but then all of a sudden it is parallel with the walk.

Quotes
Paula Haller: What did you tell her, Judge? That there's really no difference between us, that you're one of Fritzi's partners? That you make your money the same way Fritzi does except you get paid off in back alleys so that you can stay respectable?
Fritzi Haller: Oh don't talk like that! The Judge...
Paula Haller: Judge! Even the title's phony.
Fritzi Haller: He's trying to be nice, he said he'd talk to her.
Paula Haller: He's been talking to her ever since I was eight years old.
Fritzi Haller: Well you're not eight years old anymore.
Paula Haller: No. I used to cry when I was eight.
Fritzi Haller: But you don't cry anymore?
Paula Haller: No, I'm like you now Fritzi. I'm getting more like you every day.
Judge Berle Lindquist: Like mother, like daughter, two very charming...
Fritzi Haller: Oh shut up!

Connections
Featured in Wealth of the World: Transport (1950)

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Lizabeth Scott's lips and Burt Lancaster's hair along with the stunning California desert are among the highlights of this classic "Technicolor" film noir.

This is one of the only examples of film noir in color. Burt Lancaster and luscious Lizabeth Scott headline a stellar cast in this twisted romance/thriller. John Hodiak and Wendell Corey's "special" is sorely tested when Hodiak falls hard for bombshell Scott. Scott's mother Fritzi (played by hard as nails Mary Astor) tries to protect her "baby" from falling into the wrong hands (namely Hodiak's) while good guy Lancaster valiantly attempts to rid the town of no-goodniks like Hodiak, Corey and sometimes Astor. It's a two-fisted Technicolor knockout of a film and a classic example of late 40's "adult" fare. See it with somebody you lust after.