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Hailee 2022-10-23 12:51:12
[Film Review] On Dangerous Ground (1951) and Pickup on South Street (1953)
Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller, two American moviemakers extraordinaire, were born one year part, both lauded for their distinctive styles, here they offer two '50s film-noir features, both concern themselves with a hardboiled male protagonist, whose dismal world-view is softened by a good-hearted...
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Stefan 2022-10-23 13:19:27
A policeman's transformation from evil to good----"Dangerous Edge"
I knew that Nicholas Ray wouldn't be an honest cop movie, and sure enough, Jeopardy turned out to be a morality movie.
Police - Due to the nature of the profession, it is easy to suffer from occupational diseases. For example, like violence, suspicious of others, and eccentric personality. The...
William Challee
Extended Reading
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Jim Wilson: [yelling] So I get thrown off the force! What kind of job is this, anyway? Garbage, that's all we handle: garbage!
Pop Daly: Don't you know? That's the kind of job it is.
Jim Wilson: You've been doing it for sixteen years; you ought to know. How do you do it? How do you live with yourself?
Pop Daly: I don't! I live with other people. When I go home I don't take this stuff with me, I leave it outside. But you! The way you carry it around with you, you must like it!
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Jim Wilson: Why do you make me do it? You know you're gonna talk! I'm gonna make you talk! I always make you punks talk! Why do you do it? Why?
