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Criss Cross (1949) Region 1,2,3,4,5,6 Compatible DVD. Starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo

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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 g
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004HDY32W
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
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  • Elvis Patterson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best available version
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2019
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    A good quality region B blu ray edition of this otherwise unavailable Siodmak noir
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  • Paul Brooks-Burke
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ripping Yarn
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 February 2014
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    A real nostalgia piece with some excellent footage of Los Angeles in the 1940's. Memoerable too for Tony Curtis first appearance in film, dancing with Yvonne De Carlo, with whom Curtis had a brief association. De Carlo is possibly the weak point of the film as she does not have enough acting skill to really sizzle as the femme fatale, although she looks the part. Towards the end the plotline gets rather weak and unconvincing.Lancaster is excellent though, but on IMDb thereare some interesting howlers related to the film. A good solid movie to pass the time on a rainy day.
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  • Neil.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reliable delivery,good quality film
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2019
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    Watch a dvd film- good quality blue ray
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  • Robert Hardwick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2015
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    Great classic film noir,one of Burt Lancasters best.
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  • Brian Wiles
    4.0 out of 5 stars Lancaster`s performance is excellent and the dvd is of excellent quality
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2016
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    I was not too familiar with this movie until I watched it recently. Lancaster`s performance is excellent and the dvd is of excellent quality.
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  • Pocket Satire
    2.0 out of 5 stars Miscast Femme Fatale
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2020
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    The wooden acting of Yvonne de Carlo as the femme fatale rather killed this movie for us. Cinematography was good and Burt Lancaster did his best, even the story wasn't bad, but she just dragged it all down. A pity.
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  • arevalo
    5.0 out of 5 stars must have noir
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2011
    With a plot reminiscent of 'The Killers', substitute Yvonne de Carlo for Ava Gardner. Burt Lancaster is a great noir actor and de Carlo is a match for him. Like the scene where she is dancing Latin American music with a young Tony Curtis. Dan Duryea is menacing as he knows how to be, not bad for an actor who took up the profession because of a weak heart. The action is continuous and tense. The thrust of the plot is a plan to raid an armoured car, personalities and affections get in the way, Yvonne De Carlo is a self willed femme fatale who wants the guy who can give her what she wants financially. Lancaster is drawn into the heist because he wants to be that guy. You'll never regret buying this noir.
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  • D Mason
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2015
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    not abad flim
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ben recitato
    Reviewed in Italy on 3 December 2022
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    Bello per gli amanti di film datati
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  • John Fowler
    5.0 out of 5 stars BLU-RAY REVIEW
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 July 2019
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    PHOTO 3: @ 22:27 into ‘Criss Cross’, Bernard Schwartz made his film debut (uncredited) dancing the rumba with Yvonne DeCarlo. The following year he changed his name to Tony Curtis.
    PHOTO 1: ‘Criss Cross’ villain Dan Duryea (no actor was better at playing psychopaths).

    ‘Criss Cross’ (1949) was Burt Lancaster’s second film noir directed by Robert Siodmak - they did ‘The Killers’ in 1946 (see list at the end of this review).
    It was also the second time Yvonne DeCarlo co-starred with Burt Lancaster.
    Two years earlier she was in ‘Brute Force’.
    But ‘Brute Force’ is a prison picture - no women allowed - so Yvonne DeCarlo only appeared in flashback, and it wasn’t even Burt Lancaster’s flashback.
    She was in Howard Duff’s flashback.
    The first half of ‘Criss Cross’ drags a bit as it establishes the relationship between Lancaster, DeCarlo and Dan Duryea, who plays DeCarlo’s psychotic gangster husband.
    The pace picks up in the second half - an armored car robbery and the bloody aftermath.
    The ending was truly shocking for 1949 (still packs a punch).
    Music by legendary film noir composer Miklós Rózsa.

    ‘Criss Cross’ was issued on DVD in 2004: No extras aside from the theatrical trailer and subtitles.
    The new Shout Blu-ray is a 4K scan of the original nitrate negative.
    Much sharper picture.
    Black and white film stock of the 1940s and ‘50s had something called grain, which is noticeable on Blu-ray.
    Grain is not a mistake.
    Audiences in the ‘40s expected to see grain (back when movie theaters had big screens).
    Grain gives depth to black-and-white film, but people who grew up with the flat, smooth images of analog TV, videotape and even DVD have no idea what it is.
    Grain is to black-and white film stock what brushstrokes are to paintings.
    Grain is Good.
    Bonus Features on the Shout Blu-ray:
    ---- Commentary by film historian Jim Hemphill
    ---- Theatrical trailer
    ---- Still gallery, posters and lobby cards
    ---- English SDH subtitles.

    BURT LANCASTER FILM NOIR CHECKLIST:
    Burt Lancaster starred in eight films noir between 1946 and 1949, but avoided the genre completely in the ‘50s and ‘60s, branching out into adventure films and westerns.
    (IMDB considers ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ (1957) to be film noir - but I’m not so sure.)
    All eight are on DVD, Five are on Blu-ray:

    The film titles in blue are direct Amazon links.
    For the rest, enter the film title in the Amazon search bar.

    1946: The Killers [Blu-ray] (Criterion Collection)] with Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Robert Siodmak (Burt Lancaster’s film debut)

    1947: Brute Force [Blu-ray] (Criterion Collection) with Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Jules Dassin

    1947: Desert Fury [Blu-ray] with Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Lewis Allen (rare example of film noir in color)

    1948: I Walk Alone [Blu-ray] with Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, music by Victor Young - directed by Byron Haskins

    1948: Sorry, Wrong Number [Blu-ray] with Barbara Stanwyck, William Conrad, music by Franz Waxman - directed by Anatole Litvak

    1948: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands [Blu-ray] with Joan Fontaine, Robert Newton, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Norman Foster

    1949: Criss Cross [Blu-ray] with Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Duryea, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Robert Siodmak REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE

    1949: Rope of Sand [Blu-ray] with Corinne Calvet, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, music by Franz Waxman - directed by William Dieterle

    Legendary film noir composer Miklós Rózsa scored five of these films:
    The Killers, Brute Force, Desert Fury, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands and Criss Cross.
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    John Fowler
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    BLU-RAY REVIEW

    Reviewed in the United States on 27 July 2019
    PHOTO 3: @ 22:27 into ‘Criss Cross’, Bernard Schwartz made his film debut (uncredited) dancing the rumba with Yvonne DeCarlo. The following year he changed his name to Tony Curtis.
    PHOTO 1: ‘Criss Cross’ villain Dan Duryea (no actor was better at playing psychopaths).

    ‘Criss Cross’ (1949) was Burt Lancaster’s second film noir directed by Robert Siodmak - they did ‘The Killers’ in 1946 (see list at the end of this review).
    It was also the second time Yvonne DeCarlo co-starred with Burt Lancaster.
    Two years earlier she was in ‘Brute Force’.
    But ‘Brute Force’ is a prison picture - no women allowed - so Yvonne DeCarlo only appeared in flashback, and it wasn’t even Burt Lancaster’s flashback.
    She was in Howard Duff’s flashback.
    The first half of ‘Criss Cross’ drags a bit as it establishes the relationship between Lancaster, DeCarlo and Dan Duryea, who plays DeCarlo’s psychotic gangster husband.
    The pace picks up in the second half - an armored car robbery and the bloody aftermath.
    The ending was truly shocking for 1949 (still packs a punch).
    Music by legendary film noir composer Miklós Rózsa.

    ‘Criss Cross’ was issued on DVD in 2004: No extras aside from the theatrical trailer and subtitles.
    The new Shout Blu-ray is a 4K scan of the original nitrate negative.
    Much sharper picture.
    Black and white film stock of the 1940s and ‘50s had something called grain, which is noticeable on Blu-ray.
    Grain is not a mistake.
    Audiences in the ‘40s expected to see grain (back when movie theaters had big screens).
    Grain gives depth to black-and-white film, but people who grew up with the flat, smooth images of analog TV, videotape and even DVD have no idea what it is.
    Grain is to black-and white film stock what brushstrokes are to paintings.
    Grain is Good.
    Bonus Features on the Shout Blu-ray:
    ---- Commentary by film historian Jim Hemphill
    ---- Theatrical trailer
    ---- Still gallery, posters and lobby cards
    ---- English SDH subtitles.

    BURT LANCASTER FILM NOIR CHECKLIST:
    Burt Lancaster starred in eight films noir between 1946 and 1949, but avoided the genre completely in the ‘50s and ‘60s, branching out into adventure films and westerns.
    (IMDB considers ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ (1957) to be film noir - but I’m not so sure.)
    All eight are on DVD, Five are on Blu-ray:

    The film titles in blue are direct Amazon links.
    For the rest, enter the film title in the Amazon search bar.

    1946: The Killers [Blu-ray] (Criterion Collection)] with Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Robert Siodmak (Burt Lancaster’s film debut)

    1947: Brute Force [Blu-ray] (Criterion Collection) with Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Jules Dassin

    1947: Desert Fury [Blu-ray] with Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Lewis Allen (rare example of film noir in color)

    1948: I Walk Alone [Blu-ray] with Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, music by Victor Young - directed by Byron Haskins

    1948: Sorry, Wrong Number [Blu-ray] with Barbara Stanwyck, William Conrad, music by Franz Waxman - directed by Anatole Litvak

    1948: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands [Blu-ray] with Joan Fontaine, Robert Newton, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Norman Foster

    1949: Criss Cross [Blu-ray] with Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Duryea, music by Miklós Rózsa - directed by Robert Siodmak REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE

    1949: Rope of Sand [Blu-ray] with Corinne Calvet, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, music by Franz Waxman - directed by William Dieterle

    Legendary film noir composer Miklós Rózsa scored five of these films:
    The Killers, Brute Force, Desert Fury, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands and Criss Cross.
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  • CH
    4.0 out of 5 stars Criss Cross (Pour toi j'ai tué) - 1949
    Reviewed in France on 18 September 2016
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    Bon film de Robert Siodmak qu'il est particulièrement difficile de trouver en ce moment en zone 2 à un prix raisonnable. Cette édition italienne propose heureusement aussi la VO ainsi que quelques bonus en italien qu'il n'est pas malaisé de comprendre si vous connaissez le réalisateur et les acteurs prinicipaux. En attendant une réédition française chez Carlotta, espérons-le... Le film n'est pas aussi bon que Les Tueurs du même Siodmak mais c'est un excellent film noir et c'est toujours un plaisir de retrouver Burt Lancaster,Yvonne de Carlo et Dan Duryea.
    Bonne séance à tous.
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  • mackjay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Film looks great on this Blu-ray
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 October 2024
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    CRISS CROSS has always looked good, on TV or in previous video incarnations. But on this blu-ray it's fantastic! Well worth owning if you like this movie.
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  • Michael Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Noir
    Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2025
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    One of the great film noirs from the past. Starring Burt Lancaster and Dan Dureya two of the best at film noirs this one doesn’t disappoint.
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