Noir , compicated movie with intrincate plot starting with a long flashback in which our starring Robert Mitchum makes a rendezvous with his own past in the shape of Jane Greer . It deals with a private detective : Robert Mitchim who is assigned by a mobster : Kirk Douglas to find his disappeared sultry girlfriend . Mitchum undertakes a hallucinatory voyage to meet the mysterious woman resulting in fateful consequences . Along the way Mitchum gets caught in a twisted cobweb of love , killing and money .
Nice and complex Film Noir from a perversely corrupt , dark and and traditionally condemned World in which deceasing , love triangle , treason , Femme Fatale , numerous double-crosses and murders are ordinary happenings . The film contains an excellent atmosphere in which the mood of obsession and desire was never more suggestive and powerful. Interesting and tortuous storyline by Daniel Mainwaring (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Phoenix Story) , as the source novel "Build My Gallows High" was by Mainwaring writing as Geoffrey Holmes , it is intensely revealed at every level with several surprises , twists and turns . Mitchum gives an awesome acting in his peculiar style . Robert became an overnight star after this movie , which was overlooked but nowadays deemed one of the best in its genre . He is very well accompanied by an excellent cast as Jane Greer , Kirk Douglas , Richard Webb , Rhonda Fleming , Virginia Houston , Steve Brodie , among others . Being remade in 1984 as "Against all odds" by Taylor Hackford with Jeff Bridges , Rachel Ward, Richard Widmark , James Woods and Jane Greer herself .
It packs a supercrafted cinematography in black and white by Nicolas Musuraca (Cat People , I Walked with a Zombie) who along with John Seitz and John Alton are deemed to be the best photographers of the splendid Noir Movies shot in the Forties and Fifties. The motion picture was perfectly directed by Jacques Tourneur , while the plot turns out to be complex and tortuous , but resulting in clearness thanks to this great filmmaker . He was an expert craftsman who directed all kinds of genres , getting some masterpieces (Cat People , The Leopard Man, The Flame and the Arrow, Days of Glory , Night of Demon). Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching .
Nice and complex Film Noir from a perversely corrupt , dark and and traditionally condemned World in which deceasing , love triangle , treason , Femme Fatale , numerous double-crosses and murders are ordinary happenings . The film contains an excellent atmosphere in which the mood of obsession and desire was never more suggestive and powerful. Interesting and tortuous storyline by Daniel Mainwaring (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Phoenix Story) , as the source novel "Build My Gallows High" was by Mainwaring writing as Geoffrey Holmes , it is intensely revealed at every level with several surprises , twists and turns . Mitchum gives an awesome acting in his peculiar style . Robert became an overnight star after this movie , which was overlooked but nowadays deemed one of the best in its genre . He is very well accompanied by an excellent cast as Jane Greer , Kirk Douglas , Richard Webb , Rhonda Fleming , Virginia Houston , Steve Brodie , among others . Being remade in 1984 as "Against all odds" by Taylor Hackford with Jeff Bridges , Rachel Ward, Richard Widmark , James Woods and Jane Greer herself .
It packs a supercrafted cinematography in black and white by Nicolas Musuraca (Cat People , I Walked with a Zombie) who along with John Seitz and John Alton are deemed to be the best photographers of the splendid Noir Movies shot in the Forties and Fifties. The motion picture was perfectly directed by Jacques Tourneur , while the plot turns out to be complex and tortuous , but resulting in clearness thanks to this great filmmaker . He was an expert craftsman who directed all kinds of genres , getting some masterpieces (Cat People , The Leopard Man, The Flame and the Arrow, Days of Glory , Night of Demon). Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching .