Sunday, February 27, 2011

Where the Sidewalk ends

Dana Andrews d/ Otto Preminger

Tightly constructed noir. DA plays a stern, violent cop who does a bad thing and spends the rest of the story trying to deal with the consequences.

Intelligent dialogue, the usual great lighting...a mix of soundstage and location work. Marred a bit by a too tight resolution which had to follow the Hays code. Still, a solid example of the genre.

5

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