Backfire (1950)
Genre: Filmnoir / Drama
Duration: 91 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien and Gordon MacRae
IMDb score:
6,5 (2.050)
Releasedate: 26 January 1950
Backfire plot
"That "White Heat" girl turns it on again!.."
After recovering from his World War II wounds, Bob Corey sets out to find his missing wartime comrade Steve Connolly. He would set up a ranch with Steve after his recovery. Bob can count on the support of his girlfriend and nurse Julie Benson in his search. Bob and Julie soon have to deal with massacres and violence, as well as the attractive singer Lysa Randolph.
Actors and actresses
Nurse Julie Benson
Bob Corey
Steve Connolly
Ben Arno
Lysa Randolph
Capt. Garcia
Mrs. Blayne
Solly Blayne
Bonnie Willis (as Shela Stephens)
Burns
Reviews & comments
starbright boy (moderator films)
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Halfway through noirvember with Backfire. And it's not as colorful as Deadline At Dawn. But even Backfire needs a fair amount of coincidence to weave its story together. It's a fun story, though, in a penny-novel kind of way. For Warner, it was a B-movie, casting actors who, in Jack Warner's opinion, weren't working enough for their contracts. Backfire was already finished but sat on the shelf for a while. When White Heat became a big hit, Backfire was pulled from the shelf in early 1950 and sold as a new film starring O'Brien and Mayo.
The lead role, however, was for Gordon Macrae, a stage actor, primarily in musicals, and also a singer whom Warner wanted to make into a movie star. That never really worked out. After this film, he mainly played supporting roles in musicals. And after the mid-1950s, he returned to the stage.
The ending was quite striking Dane Clark turns out to be quite a psychopath in a way that was only just possible at the time and almost points to something like Psycho.
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clubsport
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- 3890 messages
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The story is quite confusing with many twists and improbable turns, which makes you risk losing the overview, but unfortunately it is not interesting enough.
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