IslandGuru Who payed the critics

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Richard Chatten Atmospherically shot by the veteran Oscar-winning cameraman Eugen Schüfftan, 'Gunman in the Streets' is the English-language version of a co-production released in France as 'Le Traqué'. The French version is now even more obscure than this, and since it had a different credited director (Borys Lewin, normally an editor) may be substantially different from this one. All those obviously Gallic types speaking English seem a little incongruous and it would be easy to imagine this with subtitles (Dane Clark and Robert Duke were presumably dubbed). Jean-Pierre Melville probably saw 'Le Traqué', and Fernand Gravet's police commissioner, suavely hot on Clark's trail, strongly resembles Paul Meurisse's Commissaire Blot in Le Deuxième Soufflé' (1966).The English-language version bears the name of blacklisted Hollywood veteran Frank Tuttle (before he yielded in 1951 to pressure to name names to the HUAC), which may be why it was never released theatrically in the United States. But it can't have helped that it's so relentlessly sordid, grim and claustrophobic, with a hero unlikeable even by Dane Clark's usual charmless standard.It starts like 'Odd Man Out', with Clark on the run on the streets of Paris with a bullet in his shoulder after shooting his way to freedom. He contacts former girlfriend Simone Signoret, curtly informs her that he needs 300,000 francs pronto to get out of the country, and they hole up in the apartment of a creepy admirer of Signoret's (Michel André) who Clark handles predictably roughly. What Signoret (then in her absolute youthful prime) ever saw in this vicious little runt was beyond me; I guess he must have been dynamite in the sack.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Known to US audiences as "An American Gangster in Paris" the film "Gunman in the Streets" is about this US Army deserter Eddy Roback, Dane Clark, who after escaping from the police in a wild shoot out by his fellow gang members on the way to the Paris Hall of Justice lays low or on the lamb in his girlfriend's Denise Vernon, Simone Signoret, pad. Roback is waiting for the heat, police, to blow over and make his escape to natural, where he isn't wanted, Belgium. This effort on Roback's part becomes somewhat complicated with Denise's new boyfriend American reporter Frank Clinton,Robert Duke, comes on the scene.Things get even more hairy with Robeck tracking down that greasy, with what was at least a full tube of Brillcreme rubbed into his scalp, magazine photographer Max Salva, Michel Andre, who in fact ratted him out to the police when he was at large. Needing quick cash, at least 300,000 francs, to make his escape that money is provided, through a second party, by Frank Clinton who feel he owes it to Roback. Since it was his award winning expose of the fleeing mobster that made him famous.The film has a number of hair raising escapes from the law by Roback but in the end his arrogance and women beating ,in how he mistreats Denise, gets the best of him. There was a horrifying scene where Roback after knocking out Max puts his head on the gas stove and, after closing all the windows in the room, attempted to gas him to death. This may have been one reason that the movie was held from release from the American public for almost 50 years! In it showing an American, hoodlum that he was, acting like a Nazi concentration camp commandant! This some five years after the end of WWII.It's just when Roback reaches the Belgium border that he luck runs out with what looked like a full company of French solders and police waiting for him. With the brutally treated by him Denise by his side Roback makes his last stand and gets blasted to pieces in a hail of pistol rifle and machine-gun fire. As for Clinton he was left out in the cold or the train station with the women he loved , Denise, opting to stay with the crazed and murderous Eddy Roback and end up with the same fate, a slab in the morgue, that he ended up with.

edwagreen Predictable crime thriller with Dane Clark escaping from a court appearance in this 1950 film.He has his dedicated girlfriend Simone Signoret aiding him in trying to raise money so that he can flee to Belgium. By the way, who was the hair stylist for Miss Signoret in this film? When her hair was long, she looked all right. When it was set in a bun-like way, she looked like one of your nosy neighbors from the Bronx.Clark plays the gangster role in the tradition of Humphrey Bogart or Edward G. Robinson, ruthless to the core.He gets the money thanks to a male friend of Signoret, a reporter who willingly becomes his hostage.Fernand Gravey plays the head of the police in hot pursuit of Clark. Wasn't Gravey in "The Great Waltz" of the 1930s?The film shows that love goes all the way with tragedy resulting.

noir guy This gripping 'lost' gangster movie (finally being released on DVD, having never been theatrically released in the U.S.) was filmed in Paris by acclaimed noir director Frank Tuttle (THIS GUN FOR HIRE, THE GLASS KEY). It stars Dane Clark as U.S. army deserter-turned-gangster Eddy Roback who is sprung from a police van by his criminal cohorts whilst being transported to the courthouse. Wounded in the gun battle, Eddy looks up former flame Denise Vernon (Simone Signoret), in the hope that she will obtain the necessary cash for a flight across the border. However, with the dogged police and Denise's new beau, a crime reporter named Frank Clinton, on his trail, time is running out for Eddy as he attempts to rely on his former criminal network and moll to secure his passage to freedom. Shot on authentic locations by noted cinematographer Eugen Schufftan (EYES WITHOUT A FACE, THE HUSTLER), this is a gripping man-on-the-run crime movie, and rattles along at a fair clip, aided in no small part by the performances; especially Signoret as the tragic moll and Clark as the pitiless hard-boiled criminal. The Gallic setting lends an effective air of authenticity and doomed romanticism to an oft-told tale, and this previously rarely-seen genre movie is well-worth seeking out.