Capital Celluloid 2015 - Day 138: Mon May 18

Criss Cross (Siodmank, 1949): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm


This film, part of the Robert Siodmak season, also screens on 10th May. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Robert Siodmak was one of the most influential stylists of the 40s, helping to create, in films such as Phantom Lady and The Killers, the characteristic look of American film noir. But most of his films have nothing more than their pictorial qualities to recommend them—Criss Cross (1949, 87 min.) being one of the few exceptions, an archly noir story replete with triple and quadruple crosses, leading up to one of the most shockingly cynical endings in the whole genre.

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