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	Criss Cross (1949 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir movie, directed by Robert Siodmak from a novel written by Don Tracy.
		This fl and white film was shot in its entirety in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles.
		To deflect suspicion of the affair, Lancaster leads Duryea into a daylight armored-truck robbery, only to be "criss crossed" when the crime is pulled off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criss_Cross_(1949_movie) (238 words)

	The Films of Robert Siodmak - by Michael Grost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In fact, one hypothesis is that film noir consists of "films in imitation of Fritz Lang", or of "films in the style of Fritz Lang".
		Criss Cross includes a shot where another guard talks to Lancaster, through a window into the van of the truck.
		Criss Cross ends at a beach house on the ocean, where the heroine reveals her mercenary nature and abandons the hero, just before the violent ending.
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	DVD Savant Review: Criss Cross
		Criss Cross is in some ways derivative of Robert Siodmak's own The Killers from two years before, but it doesn't matter.
		With its fated flashback structure and romantically plaintive narration Criss Cross is the quintessential noir saga of the tainted loser.
		Criss Cross is well-documented in books on film noir so the lack of a commentary or extras isn't as painful as it might be, but it still places the Universal series slightly behind the Warner offerings.
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	Criss Cross : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The finale of this film is certainly no cop-out and demonstrates that, although films of the 40s were not as graphic as those of today, they were nevertheless often edgier and tougher than most of what comes out now.
		A certified film noir classic, Criss Cross embraces the genre´s darkness with an uncompromising tale of doomed lovers and multilayered betrayal.
		Featuring the brief screen debut of Tony Curtis, Criss Cross is a stylish masterpiece of clashing fates and fatal attractions; Franz Planer´s cinematography creates a shadow world in which every desire is tainted by the threat of violence, and Miklos Rozsa´s score underlines a love story that could never end happily.
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	Criss Cross (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Siodmak and Lancaster (and DeCarlo and Duryea) scale one of the pinnacles of film noir,
		The brutal heist, filmed in a fog of smoke bombs, goes awry, with lives lost on both sides.
		Criss Cross displays almost documentary-style familiarity with the details of post-war life, when prosperity was finally trickling down to working stiffs.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0041268 (877 words)

	Film noir from '40s, '50s a grim DVD treat \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		For those not familiar with the rich genre that thrived with grim fl-and-white films of the 1940s and '50s, film noir is many things.
		Of course, since this is film noir, it's just a matter of time before things go awry, a doom foreshadowed by Caruso.
		The 72-minute film's trick is that the story unfolds in real time, including an incredibly staged bout in which former real-life boxer Ryan lights up the ring.
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	Film Shorts \| Film \| Film Shorts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		This 1949 film by Robert Siodmak stars Burt Lancaster and Yvonne DeCarlo in this tale of a man's fascination with his ex-wife and her links to a seedy underworld.
		This is a film that should be taken for what it is: a beautifully constructed road movie with a dash of conscience on the side.
		In this charming new film, 24-year-old writer/ director Jared Hess mines the nebulous area between popular chic and weirdo freak, where outcast attributes are both quality, subtle comedy, and a charmingly dark part of our collective high-school unconscious.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Listings?oid=19719 (2818 words)

	goatdog's movies - The Underneath, 1995
		In this loose remake of the 1949 film noir classic Criss Cross, Peter Gallagher plays a reformed gambling addict who returns to his hometown after skipping town years earlier to avoid gambling debts.
		I had a sinking feeling that the rest of the film might be as obvious, and as overstated.
		The film features a trick ending that doesn't really work; it doesn't clear anything up, and I think they included it to have a trick ending (you can usually spot those a mile away).
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	Amazon.ca: Underneath (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Using the 1949 film noir thriller Criss Cross as his primary inspiration, director Steven Soderbergh takes a different, stylistically adventurous approach to the story of a habitual screwup (Peter Gallagher) who returns to Austin, Texas, for his mother's wedding and tries to pick up where he left off.
		The film screwdly portrays the hero as a witty, angst-ridden nihilist surrounded by other nihilists (Tommy D and the hero's ex)who are one, and two, steps ahead of the hero, respectively (of course the Joe-Don Baker figure is three steps ahead).
		The unpretentious psychological depths of the film are one of its strongest features: Michael wears his Dad's suit to his mother's wedding, misuses the word "divorce" for marry" with respect to his mother.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0783229623 (1284 words)

	Amazon.com: Criss Cross / Movie (1949) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film, set in Los Angeles, begins with Thompson returning home after kicking around the states, working odd jobs, all in an attempt to remove his ex-wife from his mind (he was unsuccessful).
		Lancaster is wonderful as the lovesick mug inexorably drawn into the seedy world of low level criminals in an effort to save Anna, a woman who may, or may not need saving, as her intentions seemed a bit murky at times, along with her loyalties.
		The film is presented in full screen format (original aspect ratio) and supplemented with a meager original theatrical trailer (Universal doesn't seem to appreciate the capabilities of the DVD format with their lack of extras...oh well, I'm just glad to have the opportunity to watch the movie).
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	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Review: The Underneath
		Although modern in it's delivery, THE UNDERNEATH is actually a remake of a film from 1949 called CRISS CROSS, adapted from a book of the same name by Don Tracy.
		Soderbergh lends the film some stylish touches, some hit and some miss, but once the plot gets underway, it's mostly hit for the rest of the way.
		The film is subtle and relatively slow, but if you invest a little interest, eventually it pays off in the entertainment department.
	www.qwipster.net /underneath.htm (398 words)

	Film Noir: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		He explains that in the film, a crime syndicate plants a car bomb that kills the protagonist's wife; the filming of the explosion resembles an atomic blast and does not show the bomb's damage, thus connecting the car bombing to a cliche common to 1950s films featuring the detonation of a nuclear device.
		Film director Martin Scorsese has been exploring the soul of America since his 1973 film 'Mean Streets.' Scorsese's films depict violence and sexuality in a culture obsessed with images in the media.
		Film noir is distinguished by its interest in social context and its emphasis on the dark side of its characters.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Noirbib.html (13482 words)

	goatdog's movies - Criss Cross, 1949 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		All of the elements for a great film noir are here: the ex-con returning home, his ex-wife married to a criminal, the criminal bordering on the psychotic, and an elaborate plot to use a bank robbery as a ticket to freedom.
		As it is, the film is an entertaining yarn that pits Lancaster in his best stupid-tough-guy mode against the love of his life, the beautiful Yvonne De Carlo, and her new lover, the comical hood Dan Duryea.
		Director Robert Siodmak's The Killers is a much better film featuring many of the same elements, better because it is aided by a screenplay that has a taste for language.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=428 (441 words)

	Amazon.ca: Criss Cross (1948): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Criss Cross doesn't quite live up to the standard of director Richard Siodmak's enduring noir classic The Killers, but the film is nonetheless full of the stylish atmospherics, sly plot twists, human frailties, and fatalistic attitudes that defined the genre after World War II.
		Robert Siodmak's "Criss Cross" is a stylishly bleak, torrid and brilliant ménage a trois of shadowy intersecting lives in which all the multilayered plot entanglements are tainted with a threat of violence and ultimately lead to ruin and betrayal.
		Robert Siodmak was one of the key film makers all along these decads of creative and dramatic film noir.
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	Film Shorts \| Film \| Film Shorts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		What both films confront is, by means of personal experience, a bloody period in their respective nation's history.
		It is, however, a late film for the early master of mass entertainment, and it's concerned with several things--the main two of which being, aesthetically, the end of the silent era and, substantially, the dehumanizing conditions of an increasingly mechanized and urbanized environment.
		This film features a tedious screenplay and pedestrian direction, from Real World-style confessionals with all the major players (a child-molester boyfriend, a complicit mother, etc) to a narrative that can't seem to settle on whether its temporal irregularities are supposed to be foreshadowing or a flashback.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Listings?oid=19652 (2968 words)

	Criss Cross (1949 film) - Wikiquote
		I shoulda grabbed you by the neck, I shoulda kicked your teeth in.
		Criss Cross quotes at the Internet Movie Database
		This page was last modified 16:37, 23 June 2006.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Criss_Cross_(1949_film) (86 words)

	DVD Times - Underneath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Underneath is a remake of Robert Siodmak’s 1949 film noir Criss Cross, which starred Burt Lancaster in Peter Gallagher's role.
		Firstly, he uses the device of colour-coding different narrative strands that he was later to develop in Traffic: the robbery is shot on grainy stock with a green tint and has time captions, while certain past scenes are dominated by blue.
		Much emphasis is placed on Michael’s being a gambler, but at the end of the film we’re not sure whether he’s a hapless pawn of fate or whether he’s behind the whole elaborate scheme.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4053 (887 words)

	Deep Discount DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With this cerebral remake of the 1949 film noir gem CRISS CROSS, director Steven Soderbergh has renounced melodrama and suspense to instead create an art film with the emotional weight of Greek tragedy.
		Soderbergh handles his material so deftly that the viewer is left to question whether it is fate or personal responsibility that drove the characters to their ends.
		Cinematographer Elliot Davis shoots each section with a distinct look in order to further distinguish the film’s three chapters, giving the film a visual aesthetic that is overtly stylish and moody.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /redirect.cfm?referral=kazart&goto=buypage&identifier=MCA020445 (209 words)

	Director Goes `Underneath' / Noirish drama from Soderbergh
		The film is about the psychological tissue of a man who tries, with dire consequences, to make himself into something new.
		Charged with the kinetic visual energy of the director's ``King of the Hill'' and composed with the fluid, understated aplomb of ``sex, lies,'' ``The Underneath'' follows Gallagher home to Austin for the marriage of his mother (Anjanette Comer) to her second husband (Paul Dooley).
		While the dialogue in Sam Lowry's first screenplay, adapted from Daniel Fuchs' 1949 film noir script for ``Criss Cross,'' has a way of stating the obvious (``God, I love betting''), Michael's compulsion is effectively conveyed in the tics of his behavior.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/04/28/DD58990.DTL (678 words)

	Film Noir: Media Resources Center UCB
		Film noir about a struggling boxer in New York City who protects a nightclub dancer from her boyfriend and boss, unaware that he is a gangster.
		Film is notable for Morton's appeal to the court which emphasizes the evils of the slums.
		The noir tone of the film is accentuated by the claustrophobic atmosphere of the mental hospital where the son is incarcerated with its controlled vision of chaos and corruption.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Noirfilm.html (13334 words)

	Robert Siodmak: Two From Siodmak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Robert Siodmak’s Noir credits also include Phantom Lady (1943), Cry of the City (1948), and The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), but his single Oscar® nomination was for “The Killers” based loosely on the Ernest Hemingway short story of the same name.
		The film exhibits the same hard-boiled style of Hemingway’s short story, though it ends with the killing of the principal.
		The thrust of the film is established early with a flashback of the newly arrived Lancaster in the nightclub looking for DeCarlo.
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	Steven Soderbergh Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the requisite buzz, the film opened in late summer and proved a box-office hit, later earning an Oscar nomination for its screenplay and establishing Soderbergh as one of the most promising young filmmakers of his generation.
		This heavily stylized film (the director attempted to use a chromatic palette to cue the audience), intricately told in fragmented scenes that include flashbacks and flash forwards, won some critical support but audiences generally agreed with the reviewers who felt the film lacked substance.
		The sprawling film -- there were 110 speaking roles alone -- traced the war on drugs from all sides -- the justice department, the suppliers and the users -- and was a critical triumph and a box-office success.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/194792 (1871 words)

	Film Noir Directors: Robert Siodmak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		German expressionist film style and lent a European sense to film noir.
		Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works is an excellent resource on Siodmak, and delivers exactly what its subtitle promises.
		One or two to a chapter, all of the director's films are discussed in detail, with the author devoting additional space to Siodmak's films noirs classics.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/directors/siodmak/index.shtml (152 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
		The film, written and directed by Soderbergh for $1.2 million (the original budget was $75,000) and starring up-and-comers James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and Laura San Giacomo, helped put Robert Redford’s fledgling Sundance Film Festival on the cinematic map.
		Not that the film doesn’t hold up well over time, but even Soderbergh might wonder now what all the fuss was about, acknowledging with others that it was the right film at the right time.
		The film was a critical success and did relatively well at the box office.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /archives/2001/0102/covs2.html (1775 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - Film-Noir Listing and Review Links
		Perhaps the beauty of 'Film-Noir' is its lack of limitation, and its problematic nature of strict classification.
		Translated literally as "Black Cinema (or film)" and so defined by French critics post WW2 to describe the increasing trend of American crime dramas shot with murky, shadowy grays often with anti-hero protagonists.
		Plot devices of amnesia, recent ex-convict characters, flash-back (remembered) narratives, femme fatales, shared guilt, pathos, classic nemesis and occasional obtuse camera angles are only a few of the recognizable stylistic norms building the distinguishing keys of Film-Noir.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/film-noir.htm (3369 words)

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		Description: THE UNDERNEATH: With this cerebral remake of the 1949 film noir gem CRISS CROSS, director Steven Soderbergh has renounced melodrama and suspense to instead create an art film with the emotional weight of Greek tragedy.
		His interactions with the rest of the cast (most notably, Elliott) are at turns hysterical, dramatic, and suspenseful.
		Updated and spiced with the usual Carpenter edge, this remake is every bit as scary as the first one.
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	GreenCine \| product main - Criss Cross (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The two rivals form an uneasy and untrusting collaboration, but Steve and Anna plan to double cross Slim.
		However, the title of Robert Siodmak's film noir gem is, not incidentally, Criss Cross.
		As many of 1949's best films remind us, the socially and (to some extent) economically tumultuous immediate post -WWII years were definitely not the "good old days"
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	National Film Registry, 2002
		So if you voted for a film one year but it was not selected, that vote does not carry over to the next year.
		You may vote for these films or for others not yet on this list.
		But please do vote: films which receive the most support each year are given special consideration during the process by members of the National Film Preservation Board.
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