Audrey Long, Claire Trevor, Elisha Cook Jr.
Meeting aboard a train bound for San Francisco, Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) and Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney, in a menacing performance) strike up a conversation. Unaware of an existing connection betw...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
Stats: 47 reviews
Finally, a noir film where the title actually makes sense! Classic psychopath meets girl love story. If you can find it on DVD be sure to check out the commentary from author and noir expert Eddie Muller. Muller's insight into the character and personality of Lawrence Tierney ...( read more)
two ambitious psychopaths hook up and all hell breaks loose. claire trevor is awesome as the soulless manipulator who destroys everyone around her to be near laurence tierney's brutal thug
Lawrence Tierney is superb as the overly-confident pit bull alpha dog sociopath who draws the same rotten qualities out of Claire Trevor who gives an equally jarring performance. Robert Wise's direction is also great as he directs one of the most grisly murders during the golden ...( read more)
a story enhanced by murder and deceit. and the best thing in this movie shall be claire trevor's performance as the ambitious, complicated seductress who is in eternal struggle between the crave of peace and security and the longing for strength, excitement and corruptness. natur...( read more)
i love how awful the lead characters are! they're really bad people! in film noir i usually see main characters that do bad things but at their heart are very good people with the best intentions. Neither Helen Brent nor Sam Wilde ever seemed truly remorseful for the things they ...( read more)
Qu'est-ce qui arrive dans un film noir pur et dur quand la femme fatale rencontre un homme encore plus fatal? Une spirale imparable de manipulation, de corruption et de meurtre, présentée ici dans tout son éclat par le toujours habile Robert Wise.
Ici, il n'y a rien d'autres que...( read more)
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