Wednesday 9 January 2013

The Big Steal (1949 Don Seigel)

Scr. Daniel Mainwaring (as 'Geoffrey Holmes') and Gerald Drayson Adams, story Richard Wormser

Robert Mitchum (the year of his prison spell for pot (full story here) - Siegel relates how he had to film locations without him while they waited for the term to be over), Jane Greer, William Bendix (Lifeboat, the Blue Dahlia), Patric Knowles, Ramon Navarro, John Qualen (briefly).


Ph. Harry Wild. Mus Leigh Harline

Energetic, snappily dialogued, with long car chase, Mexican set tale of missing army money isn't really a Noir.

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