Cry Danger

Movie
Original title	Cry Danger
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1951
length	79 minutes
Rod
Director	Robert Parrish
script	William Bowers
production	Sam Wiesenthal ; W. R. Frank
music	Emil Newman ; Paul Dunlap ; Hugo Friedhofer
camera	Joseph F. Biroc
cut	Bernard W. Burton
occupation
	Dick Powell : Rocky Mulloy; Rhonda Fleming : Nancy Morgan; Richard Erdman : Delong; William Conrad : Louie Castro; Regis Toomey : Lt. Gus Cobb; Jean Porter : Darlene; Jay Adler : Williams; Joan Banks : Alice Fletcher;

Cry Danger is in black and white twisted American film noir from the year 1951 and the directorial debut of Robert Parrish .

action

Rocky Mulloy, sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in a robbery, is released after five years when the returning ex-Marine Delong testifies that he was with Rocky on the night of the crime. Police Lieutenant Gus Cobb warns Rocky that he will be watching him every step of the way. Later, Rocky and Delong talk in private. The war-torn and alcoholics Delong admits that he had his false statement made because he hoped Rocky will give him in return a share of the vanished loot from the robbery, based on 100,000 US dollars totaled. Rocky explains to him that he was convicted of innocence and wants to find out who was really behind the crime.

Rocky and Delong rent a trailer on the site where Nancy Morgan lives. Nancy's husband Danny was also convicted of the robbery, but with a lower sentence, and is due to be released shortly. Nancy tells Rocky not to investigate and to let go of the past. Soon there are hints that Nancy, who was in a relationship with Rocky before Danny, is not averse to a new relationship.

Rocky visits his former friend, the bookkeeper Castro. Convinced that Castro was behind the crime and engineered Rocky's conviction, he demands his share of $ 50,000. Castro gives him a deposit from a rigged horse race. With the banknotes from the robbery he was convicted of, Rocky is again targeted by the police. Shortly thereafter, Delong and his girlfriend are assassinated because they were mistaken for Rocky and Nancy by Castro's henchmen. Only Delong survived with serious injuries.

Rocky visits Castro again and uses gun violence to force a confession: Castro and Rocky's convicted friend Danny were behind the robbery, the false witness who incriminated Rocky had been bought by them. Nancy, who was also informed, knows about the whereabouts of the second half of the money. Rocky delivers Castro to Cobb, then gets Nancy to reveal the location of the rest of the money. Nancy offers to flee with her, but Rocky turns her over to the police and leaves the scene as a free man.

background

Cry Danger opened in American theaters on February 21, 1951. In Germany the film was not shown.

Although both Alain Silver / Elizabeth Ward and Bruce Crowther list Cry Danger in their film noir compendia, they classify it as belonging to noir, among other things, because of its optimistic, non-neurotic protagonist.

Reviews

“ Cry Danger isn't the most plausible story, but it's fresh acting under Robert Parrish's direction. The film leaves a very satisfying impression - if you are in the mood for a hard, action-packed melodrama with quite successful, mocking dialogues. "

- Bosley Crowther , The New York Times

“[Parrish's] dominant theme is that of a man who is not so much looking for an identity as a place to belong. Here, in his directorial debut, the issue is part of a low budget - thriller [...] With outstanding supporting cast as a young and (by his standards) slim William Conrad and Jay Adler , this is a fast, fresh, laconic pleasure. "

- Chris Wicking, Time Out Film Guide

Web links

Cry Danger in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 74-75.
↑ Bruce Crowther: Film Noir. Reflections in a dark mirror. Virgin, London 1988, ISBN 0-86287-402-5 , pp. 97-99.
↑ "" Cry Danger "doesn't offer the most plausible story, but it is played crisply under the direction of Robert Parrish so that the over-all reaction is very satisfactory — that is, if you are looking for a tough action melodrama with some reasonably good bantering dialogue. "- review in the New York Times on Feb. 22, 1951 retrieved on February 26, 2013.
↑ "His major theme is of a man seeking not so much an identity as a place to belong, and here, in his directorial debut, the theme lurks behind a low-budget thriller framework [...] With excellent support players like a young, thin (for him) William Conrad and Jay Adler, this is a fast, crisp and laconic delight. ”- Review in the Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 190, accessed online on February 26, 2013 .

[silver-ward-1] Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 74-75.

[2] Bruce Crowther: Film Noir. Reflections in a dark mirror. Virgin, London 1988, ISBN 0-86287-402-5 , pp. 97-99.

[3] "" Cry Danger "doesn't offer the most plausible story, but it is played crisply under the direction of Robert Parrish so that the over-all reaction is very satisfactory — that is, if you are looking for a tough action melodrama with some reasonably good bantering dialogue. "- review in the New York Times on Feb. 22, 1951 retrieved on February 26, 2013.

[4] "His major theme is of a man seeking not so much an identity as a place to belong, and here, in his directorial debut, the theme lurks behind a low-budget thriller framework [...] With excellent support players like a young, thin (for him) William Conrad and Jay Adler, this is a fast, crisp and laconic delight. ”- Review in the Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 190, accessed online on February 26, 2013 .