George Cooper, Gloria Grahame, Jacqueline White
Crossfire was nominated for the 1947 Best Picture Oscar won by Gentleman's Agreement. Gentlemen may propose, if not agree, that Crossfire was better. Like its upscale rival, the f...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
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September 11, 2009A man is found beaten to death in his apartment. The last people he was seen with were four soliders. One of them did it, but which one? Robert Young as a police detective, in a better performance than I would normally expect out of him, wants to find out. Even though it's pretty...( read more)
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June 25, 2008A social commentary that pretends to be a murder mystery. Crossfire's main purpose is explaining prejudice or hatred of somebody just because they are a member of a certain group. For that emphasis, it's a very interesting movie and sets it apart from most films in its' time, bu...( read more)
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November 2, 2006It's not quite noir but Robert Ryan as an anti-semetic psycho is worth the viewing
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July 5, 2008Clearly antisemitism was a major issue in 1947, as two of the five Best Picture nominees from that year were explicitly about the subject. This and Gentleman's Agreement are both preachy but this is clearly the lesser of the two. A boring, uninspired military mystery about invest...( read more)
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March 13, 2009Le réalisateur de l'excellent "Murder, My Sweet" récidive avec un autre film noir béton, supporté par une distribution cinq étoiles (Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame...). Ces seuls noms combinés suffisent à convaincre les amateurs, mais "Crossfire" est un peu plus qu'u...( read more)
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October 30, 2008Without a doubt Monty was the most interesting character but the fact that they changed the book's homosexual into Jewish was disappointing. Otherwise pretty decent.
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July 11, 2008want to see this because it was nominated for best picture at the oscars and by NBR
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April 13, 2008This picture is to slow and not very creative. The acting solid but not exceptional and the movie felt like it was telling you the story instead of pulling you in to live it. It does let a few punches go, but that is only to allow for the films over bearing message.
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