shockingly good film...


...which has now put a serious dent in my day. Got work to do. I'm recording the rest. Can't stop watching it unless I know I can catch up with it later. It's that good.

And oh my God, is that Cathy O'Donnell one of the most absolute major-league cuties ever to hit the screen. Man. So much of the film really is her and the sense of her sweetness and decency.

Must be a helluva thing to do something this good as a director, actor, crew member, whatever, and then have it live on for generations.

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Oh, and: The direction and camera work is stunningly advanced as well. There is a '50s-'60s European feel to the way some of the action scenes are shot, in addition to how much attention there is to what would otherwise be ordinary shots (establishing shots, etc.).

So I'm saying. See it.

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Loved the black performer,loved her music scene in the nightclub.one of the best scenes,in the movie.I wish they gave great black performers,more work back in the forties...

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Yeah, she sorta commanded the room and that scene, didn't she?

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The emotional entanglement between Bowie and Keechie made this film. Witnessing an innocent love struggling to survive in a violent world was equally enchanting and heartbreaking.

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".

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Agree completely.

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"innocent love struggling to survive in a violent world"

Their love was innocent, but the "violent world" they struggled to survive in was of Bowie's own creation because after breaking out of prison to clear his name of a supposedly unjust charge, he immediately embarked on a spree of felonies with his two psycho colleagues.

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i'm happy for you, i myself didn't enjoy this movie at all even though i'm a huge noir fan

there was nothing memorable about it, and i'm sure that by tomorrow i'd have already forgotten all about it


5/10



so many movies, so little time

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