Film's title
A very good film but methinks a strange title. Anyone have any ideas as to why it's so called ? Did they just dip into a hat and pull a out a name at random ?
shareCrossfire is a military term indicating a victim caught between two or more shooters. The tricky thing about a crossfire is that the shooters are in danger of their own fire.
In this film everyone seems to be caught in a crossfire. Mitchum is caught between the anti-semitic murderer, Ryan, and the self-righteous cop, Robert Young. Likewise, the soldiers involved in the murder of Samuels are caught between the crossfire of justice, represented again by Young, and hatred, represented by Ryan. As a film of social commentary, much in the same vein as "Gentleman's Agreement", one can wax sociologically about how all of us in human society are caught between the crossfire of prejudice and hatred and the horrid results that anti-semitism causes. The very soldiers who won WWII and liberated countless victims of the Nazi death camps are caught up in a crossfire from the very evil they so successfully eliminated in battle, only to return home and become involved in the very crime that caused the Holocaust.
Dr. Michael James McColley-Parmer
naw....
I don't buy the military crossfire title-theory. There were no “crossfires” of purpose or loyalties by the characters.
Like someone mentioned earlier, the producers probably just pulled the name out of a hat because it sounded menacing.