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Movie
Crossfire
Synopsis
Crossfire is set in a hotel just after the end of WW II and begins with the murder of a Jewish guest. The prime suspects are a trio of recently returned GIs, and a level-headed detective sets off to find which one of them (if not all of them) is guilty. Robert Ryan gives a fine performance in an underwritten role, but the film is otherwise visually static and somewhat pretentious, lacking a meaningful style and showing little depth. Despite its flaws, the film has some power and caused controversy. Because of the film's subtext of prejudice and anti-Semitism, filmmaker Edward Dmytryk became one of the first 10 Hollywood figures blacklisted by McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Cast
- Robert Young
- Robert Mitchum
- Robert Ryan
- Gloria Grahame
- Paul Kelly
- Sam Levene
- Jacqueline White
- Steve Brodie
- George Cooper
- Lex Barker
- William Phipps
- Richard Benedict
- Tom Keene
- Marlo Dwyer
- Richard Powers
- Harry Harvey
- Carl Faulkner
- Jay Norris
- Robert Bray
- George Turner
- Don Cadell
- Philip Morris
- Kenneth MacDonald
- Allan Ray
- Bill Nind
- George Meader
- Gordon Bau
- John Paxton
- Harry Gerstad
- Darrell Silvera
- Albert S. D'Agostino
- Roy Hunt
- Russell A. Cully
- C. Bakaleinikoff
- Richard Brooks
- J. Roy Hunt
- Dore Schary
- Alfred Herman