Hot Blood

Hot Blood (1956)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (128 ratings)

If Hot Blood is remembered at all today, it is for its ludicrous advertising blurb "Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and drives Cornel Wilde!" Set in the gypsy community of contemporary Los Angeles, the film stars Wilde as aspiring dancer Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Musical & Performing Arts
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1956 Limited
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Definitely one of the more intriguing and neglected of Ray's second-degree efforts.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    An oddity, then, but one distinguished by Ray's characteristic refusal to patronise or glamorise his characters.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    If not Nicholas Ray's greatest movie, then surely the rapturous culmination of his palpable desire to do a musical

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Ray milks the comedy element for all it's worth, and the musical numbers are staged surprisingly well by a director mainly known for his gritty dramas.

  • , Film4

    All the lively song-and-dance routines and steamy shots of a scantily clad Russell can't make up for the crass dialogue and boring melodramatics.

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