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	The Films of Robert Siodmak - by Michael Grost
		Criss Cross has numerous scenes shot on staircases, and sloping locations that are staircase like.
		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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	Program Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Criss Cross was, indeed, a Hellinger property, smartly retrieved by the studio from his estate and handed confidently to The Killers's director, Robert Siodmak, and its star, Lancaster.
		Criss Cross is a title predicated on the fatality of positioning; it is also a movie that truly employs its company logo—that L.A. night takes off from the Universal-International Earth in its velvet darkness.
		Criss Cross merits a respectable place in noir, yet it has dazzling, fresh-air, sunswiped scenes, too; and its darkest luster attends less to violence than the faltering in the love story.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/c/criss_cross.html (1281 words)

	criss-cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From The Movie Guide: "A bleak but compelling film noir, CRISS CROSS stars the forceful Burt Lancaster as an honest armored-car guard who takes up again with his ex-wife, De Carlo, now married to sleazy gangster Duryea.
		"CRISS CROSS is a somber, extremely violent, utterly grim film, with suspense expertly maintained throughout by Robert Siodmak's taut direction --- his handling of flashbacks and clever staging of the robbery stand out.
		Lancaster is powerful as the love-torn guard, and Yvonne De Carlo smokes up the screen with her earthy portrayal of a money-hungry vamp (a role almost twin to Ava Gardner's slippery siren opposite Lancaster in THE KILLERS).
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/c/criss-cross.html (229 words)

	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.
		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.
		Also appearing in the movie are supporting actors Percy Helton (playing a bartender) and Stephen McNally (as the cop friend of Steve's).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criss_Cross_(1949_movie) (247 words)

	Review of Criss Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Having made his movie debut as the doomed Swede in The Killers, he falls for the wrong woman again in Criss Cross.
		Steve, planning to double cross Slim by running away with Anna and the payroll, reluctantly carries out the plan when the gangster agrees.
		Criss Cross fascinates because it portrays a man who double crosses himself.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/ftitles/crisscross/rev.shtml (403 words)

	Amazon.com: Criss Cross: DVD: Burt Lancaster,Yvonne De Carlo,Dan Duryea,Stephen McNally,Esy Morales,Tom Pedi,Percy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Also appearing is Dan Duryea (Ministry of Fear) in one of his more typical roles as a villainous hoodlum, although I did recently see him in the film Black Angel, showing that he could also play the protagonist equally as well (the character may have been intrinsically weak, but the characterization wasn't).
		The Robert Siodmak directed "Criss Cross", has all the classic underpinnings for film noir, fl and white cinematography, a plot bordering on criminality and a manipulative bad girl.
	www.amazon.com /Criss-Cross-Burt-Lancaster/dp/B00023P4GA (2550 words)

	L. A. Nocturne's Los Angeles Film Noir
		More film than noir, this movie is mostly memorable for its late 50s Little Tokyo film locations than for the storyline, the angst of the two detectives who fall in love with their key witness in this murder mystery.
		Whether this is the fault of the director or the editor, the movie proceeds at a stately pace, with stock neo-noir camera angles and lighting.
		At movie's end, my foremost urge is to go directly to the shelf, turn to page 1, and start reading, to get that gritty taste back in my mouth.
	www.lanocturne.com /movies/noir.html (1634 words)

	Robert Siodmak
		In the former, the danger is Anna, and in the latter the danger is a stalking murderer, but in both cases the domineering presence of the maternal figures is ignored to satisfy either bodily (Steve's passion for his ex-wife) or intellectual (Helen's curiosity to investigate the murderer) desires.
		In Criss Cross, the haunting scenes of the heist perpetrators walking in gas masks through clouds of tear gas remind viewers of battlefield scenes directly pulled from World War II newsreels.
		For example, in Criss Cross, the scenes of Steve walking to his parent's neighbourhood home are illuminated by natural sunlight, suggesting that clarity for Steve can be found in domestic stability, as opposed to the dim lighting in the local bar.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/siodmak.html (3712 words)

	village voice > film > "Robert Siodmak: '40s Noir" at BAMcinématek by Elliott Stein
		Although audiences gasped in shock at the first sight of America's chirping child diva, heavily made up and in décolleté in a sleazy club, Christmas Holiday was a money-spinner and Durbin has repeatedly cited it as her only worthwhile film.
		The later Siodmak movies on view, The Suspect (1944), The Killers (1946), and Criss Cross (1949) are near-classics.
		Criss Cross, arguably the best film of Siodmak's career, is both a superbly crafted caper movie and a disturbing account of amour fou depicted with Germanic fatalism.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0218/stein.php (917 words)

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	Denny Jackson's Yvonne De Carlo Page
		While the critics was less than thrilled with this movie, it was, at long last, a big role, and for Universal Studios, a big success.
		In CRISS CROSS (1949), a gangster movie where Yvonne had a big and meaty role as the ex-wife of a hoodlum.
		Her talents were again showcased in movies such as THE DESERT HAWK (1950), SILVER CITY (1951), and SCARLET ANGEL (1952).
	www.geocities.com /~dennyjackson/decarlo.html (630 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Framing Los Angeles
		In the end, ''Los Angeles Plays Itself" works best as a reclamation project, both for long-forgotten movies like 1961's ''The Exiles" and for long-destroyed neighborhoods such as the working-class Bunker Hill, where ''Exiles" was filmed.
		Other tight-lipped classics of SoCal fatalism playing at the Brattle include ''Criss Cross" (1949) and ''This Gun for Hire" (1942, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake).
		The Brattle is also showing John Boorman's tremendous, surreal ''Point Blank" (1967), starring Lee Marvin as a stone-faced avenging angel striding through the corridors of late-'60s LA snuffing out the criminals who tried to do him in.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2005/03/20/framing_los_angeles?pg=2 (614 words)

	Criss Cross, Double Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is the summer of 1949 in Maillardville, British Columbia, and the school year looms for Sophie.
		Her adventurous tomboy ways have once again turned an uneventful summer into one disaster after another, as more than ever Sophie resorts to Star Girl for inspiration, especially since a movie about her hero will soon be released.
		Starting classes at her new school, Notre Dame de Fatima, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up Elizabeth Proctor and her friends rule.
	www.beachholme.bc.ca /ya/crisscross.htm (167 words)

	Daniel Fuchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fuchs wrote the screenplay for the sexy crime noir Criss Cross (1949).
		In 1995, Criss Cross was remade as The Underneath by director Steven Soderbergh, with credit given to Fuchs.
		Love Me or Leave Me, a biopic about the torch singer Ruth Etting, which won Fuchs an Oscar for Best Story in 1955, featured a performance by James Cagney in the role of a Chicago hoodlum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Fuchs (285 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The "C" Listing of the Movie Reviews
		The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
		The reviews include the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.
		All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L. Office for Film and Broadcasting
	www.usccb.org /movies/c/c.shtml (235 words)

	Criss Cross (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plot Outline: Steve Thompson, still obsessed with his fickle ex-wife, is drawn by her into the underworld...
		The fact that Lancaster works for an armored car service is worked into the plot and makes for the movie's most suspenseful and action-filled moments.
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	Actors M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An extended stop in Hollywood introduced him to the world of movies, where he played some small parts in several silent films.
		He then landed a part in the Broadway musical "Roberta" where he was noticed by a Paramount talent scout.
		He found that the silent gag made his character more comical, so he exploited that gimmick as a part of his character for the remainder of the Marx Brothers movies.
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /actorsm.htm (1070 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Criss Cross (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The movie stars strong, with flashbacks telling the story like in The Killers.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=102303 (471 words)

	City Pages - Movies - Criss Cross
		As an impossibly convoluted thriller stuffed with flashbacks and nihilistic voiceovers, this 1949 film noir from director Robert Siodmak isn't quite on a par with The Killers, Siodmak's first collaboration with tough guy-cum-patsy Burt Lancaster.
		In fact, what seemed to be Soderbergh's most innovative scene--a protracted hospital-room dialogue between the helpless protagonist and his potential assassin--actually pales by comparison to Siodmak's more straightforwardly intense staging, in which the intersecting bars of the hero's death bed represent both title and plot in visual terms.
		It was in the cards, or it was fate, or it was a jinx, or whatever you want to call it." I'd call it a postwar metaphor for the trauma of vets who, coming home, found that their wives weren't the compliant homemakers they were before.
	www.citypages.com /movies/detail.asp?MID=3937 (432 words)

	Criss Cross (1949) - Movie Reviews from TopTenReviews.com
		Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife.
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	Fear in the Night (1947)
		Suspenseful film has many plot twists to satisfy fans of psychological mysteries.
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		Equally gripping crime drama is darker; has more romance.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=8184 (86 words)

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		Siodmak keeps the suspense at a feverish pitch, and the characterizations are well drawn out.
		Criss Cross is one of the great examples of 1940s film noir at its most tragic.
		A must see film for fans of the genre.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/crisscross.htm (494 words)

	JR.com: Criss Cross (1949) - DVD in Movies: Dramas: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Criss Cross
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	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Criss Cross
		Criss Cross's tension is in the line readings of its cast [Dan Duryea as Slim, for example, was still perfecting his smarmy snarl] and the noir atmosphere.
		Notes: Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs from the novel by of the same name by Don Tracy.
		New Search More info on Criss Cross at The Internet Movie Database
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=1198 (230 words)

	Criss Cross - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from good-time girl Anna (Yvonne...
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