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22 April 1949 (USA) moreTagline:
Savage Story of A Guy Who Tried Going Straight On...The CROOKED WAY (reissue print ad) morePlot:
War hero recovers from amnesia & is confronted by his criminal past. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
The Crooked Way **1/2 moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Payne | ... | Eddie Rice aka Eddie Riccardi |
| Sonny Tufts | ... | Vince Alexander |
| Ellen Drew | ... | Nina Martin |
 | Rhys Williams | ... | Lieutenant Joe Williams |
| Percy Helton | ... | Petey |
 | John Doucette | ... | Sgt. Barrett |
| Charles Evans | ... | Captain Anderson (as Charlie Evans) |
| Greta Granstedt | ... | Hazel Downs |
| Raymond Largay | ... | Arthur Stacey, M.D. |
| Harry Bronson | ... | Danny |
| Hal Baylor | ... | Coke (as Hal Fieberling) |
| Don Haggerty | ... | Hood |
| Jack Overman | ... | Hood |
| Crane Whitley | ... | Doctor Kemble / Off-Screen Narrator |
| John Harmon | ... | Kelly |
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #13659) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:(Banned) | Sweden:(Banned)Filming Locations:
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As opposed to COVER UP (1949), the film noir stylistics – courtesy of master cinematographer John Alton – are all over this one and they are its main raison d'etre; alas, the plot is rather routine, though by no means uninteresting. This low-budget effort proved to be one of Robert Florey's last movie projects and he competently handles the action throughout; most effective, perhaps, is chief villain Sonny Tufts' violent demise in a hail of bullets. John Payne, however, is miscast in the main role of the amnesiac war veteran as one doesn't quite believe in his earlier persona of a vicious thug! This opinion, though, might very well change after watching him in the reportedly superior KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952), 99 RIVER STREET (1953) and THE BOSS (1956), three other noirs I have on VHS...