| | Crossfire DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Suspense, Thieves, Psychos, Film Noir, Race Relations | | Starring | Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Robert Young, Gloria Grahame, Steve Brodie, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, Jacqueline White | | Director | Edward Dmytryk | | Cinematographer | J. Roy Hunt | | Composer | Roy Webb | | Editor | Harry Gerstad | | Makeup | Gordon Bau | | Music Director | Constantin Bakaleinikoff | | Producer | Adrian Scott | | Production Designer | Albert S. D'Agostino, Alfred Herman | | Screenwriter | John Paxton | | Set Designer | Darrell Silvera, John Sturtevant | | Source Writer | Richard Brooks | | Special Effects | Russell A. Cully |
Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, and Robert Ryan star. A man is murdered by soldiers just out of the Army. CROSSFIRE is a rare 1940s indictment of anti-Semitism and bigotry. The theme is wrapped around a murder case with Robert Ryan as the hateful murderer. This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom of a seemingly motive-lacking murder, with the prime suspect a boozy soldier who can only vaguely recall the events of the night. The story really digs its heels into lots of postwar issues--how soldiers need a place to put all their violence once the war is over and the other problems of readjusting to civilian life. Robert Mitchum stars as a friend of the accused soldier who helps the detective solve the case.
Edward Dmytryk had already established himself as a fine noir director with MURDER, MY SWEET, made a few years earlier. Here he takes the shadowy, midnight world of desperate people and seedy dives and slyly turns it into a vehicle for the exploration of bigotry. The result is a quietly stunning, low-key classic. Young is especially good as the detective and gets ample help from Mitchum and Robert Ryan in this well-written, atmospheric drama.
Theatrical release: July 22, 1947.
The murder victim in the source novel THE BRICK FOXHOLE was killed because he was gay. However, the producers thought this was too risqué and made the victim Jewish.
Crossfire | List Price | $19.97 (You save $5.02) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1947 | | All Time Sales Rank |  31127  | | CD Universe Part number | 6856900 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 05, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 86 Minutes | | Movie Details | B&W |
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Crossfire DVD Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun."
Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards?* including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood took aim at injustice?and caught bigotry in a Crossfire.
Source: Warner Home Video
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Additional Release Material:
Featurette: Hate Is like a Gun
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