- Actors: Michael Rennie, Carl Betz, Max Showalter
- Format: Black & White, Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 11 Mar 2008
- Run Time: 75 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0010KHOSU
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 56,743 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Inexplicably neglected film noir,
By Humpty Dumpty (Wall St, Upton Snodsbury) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dangerous Crossing [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This is a short, taut film noir from 20th Century Fox that is inexplicably little known today.
A newly-wed honeymooning bride (Jeanne Craine) boards an Atlantic liner from New York with her husband. He promptly disappears, and the rest of the film, which is based on a John Dickson Carr radio play, concerns her search for him as the crew and especially the ship's doctor (Michael Rennie) struggle to make sense of her predicament even to the extent of questioning her sanity. The plot is not over-complicated, but its enigmatic quality holds the viewer's attention and does not outstay its welcome at 75 minutes. But the storyline is just one element of a classy package here. This was made in 1953 just when the arrival of TV was starting to take its toll on US cinema audiences. The Fox bosses, wanting to save costs by recycling once-used sets, in this case the seaboard "Titanic" and also "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" which was partly set on the ocean wave, were looking for a suitable B-movie candidate and alighted on Dangerous Crossing. Despite being filmed entirely in the studio in 19 days for $500,000, the sets look and are expensive, and there's no feeling that it's studio bound thanks to careful use of seascape back projection, some involving shots of the ship that clearly stood in for The Titanic, and also the same fog effects. I would imagine the music was put together too from material from other movies. The acting is uniformly interesting. The 28-year old Jeanne Craine is excellent, conveying fear, bewilderment but also commendable stubbornness; and she looks great in her ballgown. Michael Rennie, a couple of years on from The Day the Earth Stood Still, is a sympathetic second fiddle, never competing to steal a scene from the female lead as many male co-stars would have done. Apart from the individual qualities I've tried to convey above, this film has considerable interest for people wanting to appreciate how a studio, by careful use of its human and material resources and by exercising imagination, could put together a first-rate second picture that even 50 years later has lots of impact. The region 1 disc print quality and sound are good. It comes with trailer-cum-brief introduction, plus full and reasonably interesting audio commentary by a film historian, though it mainly focuses on the fortunes and practices of 20th Century Fox at this time rather than offering insights into this particular film.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous Jeanne Crain in Fox Noir,
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This review is from: Dangerous Crossing [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Really enjoyed this 1953 short fox noir starring contract star Jeanne Crain at her most stunning- set on a cruise liner this is a compact thriller in which Jeanne's new husband disappears almost as soon as they get on board- who's behind the vanishing act? There are plenty of suspects! If you like classic thrillers- turn down the lights, take the phone off the hook & enjoy!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good,
By Alex da Silva (St. Annes, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dangerous Crossing [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Ruth (Jeanne Crain) and John (Carl Betz) board a ship for their honeymoon. However, within 15 minutes of sailing, John has disappeared. Not only has he disappeared but there has never been any trace of him and there are no witnesses that have seen the couple together. The room that they originally booked into is now empty and only Ruth's suitcases seem to be located on board - in a different room! So begins the mystery. The film follows Ruth's attempts to locate her husband while we are introduced to a suspicious cast of characters. No-one believes her story and even the confidante that she finds in Dr Paul Manning (Michael Rennie) has his doubts. She receives a phone call in her cabin from John saying that they are both in danger.......
The film gets you involved from the beginning and you know that something sinister is occurring. The various characters are introduced to us - eg, stewardess Anna (Mary Anderson), single traveller Kay (Marjorie Hoshelle), steward Jim (Casey Adams) and a foreign passenger with a walking stick (Karl Ludwig Lindt) - and we are never quite sure what is in the back of their minds. Even Dr manning is not above suspicion. The fog horn that continually sounds adds to the tension in the night scenes and it is a well acted film by all.
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