Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Genre: Filmnoir / Drama
Duration: 91 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Stars: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe and Louise Allbritton
IMDb score:
6,3 (1.302)
Releasedate: 2 September 1948
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Walk a Crooked Mile plot
"FBI teams up with Scotland Yard to avenge murder of G-Man!"
A security flaw has been discovered at a nuclear facility in southern California. The authorities are afraid that this classified information will end up with hostile countries. To investigate the matter thoroughly, FBI Agent Dan O'Hara and Scotland Yard Agent Philip Grayson must team up. Will they be able to stop the espionage?
Actors and actresses
Philip 'Scotty' Grayson
Daniel F. O'Hara
Dr. Anastasia 'Toni' Neva
Dr. Ritter von Stolb
Igor Braun
Krebs
Dr. Frederick Townsend
Dr. William Forrest
Anton Radchek
Dr. Homer Allen
Reviews & comments
ToNe
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Walk a Crooked Mile opts for the semi-documentary style for realistic effect, but the result remains unashamed propaganda pulp that glorifies the need for the FBI. To polish up allied relations, the G-Men also receive help from Scotland Yard.
It's a hopeless venture, to modern eyes, to get into the movie. A voice-over that, supported by real footage, immediately throws the facts on the table. And rubs into it how low you must be to commit such an unpatriotic act as treason. It's also a good thing that the antagonists have such un-American names. In reality, the House Committee on Un-American Activities - what's in a name - was conducting a witch hunt for communist propaganda in film during this period.
In wartime (even if it be a cold one) everything is permitted.
And Raymond Burr, playing the cunning communist with his Leninsikje.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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Walk a Crooked Mile gives a fascinating picture of the time, but it is certainly not a great film. Just three years before this film, the Russians and the Americans were fighting on the same side. But now it was already time for an anti-communist propaganda film. Because that's it and not much more. Often a thick set too. The style is influenced by the semi-documentary style that was becoming popular in those days. In doing so, the German expressionist influence of many early noirs goes out the window and we get something that resembles a documentary. The beautiful The Naked City is an example. It won't save this movie. The voice over is stiff. And the story is completely unbelievable. Plus, the FBI agents aren't that smart. Several times they realize what it is a lot later than I as a viewer.
They are also rescued once more by a room renter who turns out to be a communism refugee and gratefully gives her life for The American Dream in a rare pathetic scene. The film is not over yet and it will take a while before it turns out that the evil communists do not have the suspicious assistant who speaks Russian suspiciously well, but the boss of the scientists on their payroll. Is nothing going right then? Well the film has location shots in San Francisco and that city competes with New York for the most cameragenic American city. So that's nice. And it knows how to entertain as a whole. But it's the least good film noir I've seen this month.
Much to my surprise, the producer refused Hoover as a producer and far-reaching interference from the FBI. That is not noticeable in the film. Furthermore, the for that time (the suggestion) of rather brutal violence is striking.
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