96 min
Solid. Some great menacing shots of Lancaster. Interesting in that there are no guns. Outstanding on location shots in New York.
Tag: Noir
112 mins
Scams, cons, corruption, manipulation. Early gem of a media circus in the desert. Post war cynicism. Billy Wilder on a roll. Fabulous on location shooting.
100 mins
Characters who would not normally mix, trapped in a hotel during a storm. Storm is a little hokey. The mixup between “the indians killed Sawyer” no, “the gangsters killed Sawyer” neither all that interesting or strong enough to fulcrum the entire plot.
The plot is the result of random strangers being thrown together, and so is weaker than if it grew organically from characters’ life trajectories. There is no reason Bogart had to come at this particular time.
